what a great logo!!!

so, yesterday i was watching tv instead of working on my grad school applications. i was watching HGTV or some crap like that, and one of those design on a dime, trading spaces, while you were out type of dealies was on. They were in this dude's house shooting the camera all over the place, and soon you notice a very prominent theme. The dude has crosses, like, jesus-style crosses, all over the place. being the witty tv-personality that the host was, she mentioned this and asked what it was all about. this guys response was priceless. honest to god, it went like this:
"its not a religious thing, don't worry about that. see, i'm in marketing, and to me the cross is just a really great logo."
at this point, fire spewed forth from my ears, blood from my eyes and bile from my throat. could he have actually just said that. i'm not particularly religious or anything, and the cross, though important as a symbol of martyrdom and personal sacrifice for the good of humanity, holds no real sentimental value for me. nonetheless, his sacrilege shocked me so much i found myself wishing we had tivo so i could've rewound live television and played it over and over again so his stupidity could've poison my brain ad infinitum. i'll get to tivo in a second, but right now i want to concentrate on two very important questions.
one, why is it that they insist on letting assholes like this on television. he obviously doesn't have anything positive to contribute to humanity. in fact, i highly doubt he really thought about what he was saying. he's probably really good at the whole marketing thing and what he said was probably one of his most clever catch phrases that he couldn't wait to spit out on tv.
two, why is it that we insist on letting assholes like this survive. if i was the camera man on that shoot, i would've considered it my duty to humanity to take out my little tack-hammer of justice and pop that guy right between the eyes. "bad ad-executive...bad."
i don't really know why this whole thing bothered me this much. it was just one of those things that further convinced me of the steady decline of humanity. i mean...an ad executive who collects crosses because they are a great logo, there's no spirituality any more, just crap and money. this guys life was obviously consumed by his work a very long time ago, which wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't in marketing. back in the day your life was your work, not the other way around. you grow what you need to survive and sell the rest. when the field needs to be ploughed, you plow it. when you're out of meat, you better go kill something otherwise you're going to starve. credit was something you did when you had no other choice, not a necessary tool for survival and the foundation of a poorly drafted economic system.
buy buy buy, spend spend spend, its christmas, so go out and be merry. and don't forget, the most important person on your shopping list is yourself. since your pretending to be generous and caring by spending a bunch of money on crap that your family doesn't need and most likely doesn't want, you might as well get yourself something, because the people that are buying you presents don't know you enough to get you the stuff that you want, even if they're your supposed family. what a merry fucking way to spend christmas.
tivo...tivo and all other digital tv recorders that have the advanced capability of taping all your favorite shows and pausing live tv and playing it back are crap. i saw a commercial for one that talked about how great it was that dad could watch the game that he taped because he was busy at work, and how mom could watch the end of the movie that she fell asleep during last night, and how little junior could watch his favorite cartoon when he got home from school, even though it aired at 8 in the morning when he was already out the door.
tv is not this important. it is not a tool by which you can encourage family togetherness. even if you're watching tv as a family, you are not interacting. you are buying into the brainwashing bullshit that they are feeding you, and your personal life is suffering as a result. if you're going to miss one of your shows because you are going out with friends, good, you are participating in something that they used to call reality. its completely unrelated to reality tv, and involves all five sense instead of just sight and sound. its a truly enriching experience, and if you can't handle missing the plotline on some mindless tv drivel and are unwilling to sacrifice tv for your real life, i suggest another form of entertainment. seek therapy. you've clearly lost touch with reality, have no idea what's important in your life, lack a concept of self and have lost function in 80% of your brain.
i know i've spoken a lot of blasphemy here, and a lot of hypocricy. i used to watch tv all the time. i remember once screaming out loud when i realized that i was missing the teenage mutant ninja turtle cartoon. as homer once said, "i've grown, you haven't," and actually that was his response regarding the explosion of reality tv shows and how he can't stand them anymore. isn't it funny how i'm supporting my argument against tv with a quote from a very popular tv show?
i bet that if bart carried a cross instead of a slingshot the marketing director for the simposons could've come up with a really great logo.