There are too many awards shows: a 5-year FLASHBACK blog!

(Originally posted February 13, 2008)

Both on TV and otherwise.  What are people doing with all these trophies?  We could melt them down and use the money to pay for OIL.

Idea: Ban trophies

I do not think awards shows are good.  We give awards to people that were in movies and people that recorded popular music.  News flash: They already got PAID for that!  and geez if you already starred in a popular movie, do you really need any more attention?  Some of these people are even naked in the movies.  Enough already.

Another thing.  If you give an award to someone, it should be the PEOPLE that decide who gets it.  Not some committee of fools and cowards hiding in the shadows.

Basically I think the awards shows should be more like the political elections, and the political elections should be more like the awards shows.  If you win some dumb award you don't need a whole ceremony, they can just announce it on the news.  and Election Day would be more interesting if they all wore tuxedoes and read things out of secret envelopes.  Why did society pick Election Day of all things to underhype?  There should be more HOOPLA. 

Other than the President, people never get to vote on anything good.  Everybody goes crazy over "American Idol" but in the long run nobody cares who wins that.  There should be lasting consequences.  The winner should be given a position in the Cabinet and get to have their picture on money.  Maybe record a new National Anthem.  Better people would be in it if you could win stuff like that.

Also, there are too many differences of opinion in society that never get settled.  We should be able to vote on things that would be made official for all time, like the official all time coolest dinosaur.  Everybody would be interested in something like that.


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