You can't afford it anyway

I haven't posted in a while but I thought I might lay down a few lines before the 13th expires. As of today, many frustrations have cropped up, passed and had to be physically thrown away. I am finding that the bull***t is getting harder and harder to deal with! I often feel like it is me, myself and I standing alone in a world of people who have no clue as to their identity. In the same breath I must ask if I am the one who is ultimately fooled. What is the use of foolish thoughts? I mean I live in a world of mediocre talent at best. It seems no one excels and therefore those who have the power look for no one who excels. This seems to be the constant circle of mediocrity. Absolute mediocrity. Doesn't anyone else see this but myself?! It is a shame when in today's time Alicia Keys is the symbol of a pianist and Ashley Simpson (probably spelled her name wrong) is a pop star. I don't mean to pick on these two but, they were the first two to pop in my mind. Not that Ashley is so wrong, it is just that her brand of talent is something that most of them have. How many more most we endure? Now as far as I am concerned, I don't listen to the radio so what people find interesting about them doesn't bother me. Other then the fact that whenever I turn on the radio they are shoved down my throat, no one is making me listen to them. But just for the sake of knowledge - these are the stars of the young world. I suppose those who are truly talented have never been able to catch the real break but now more then ever. How did we get so far away? Club rap is considered exclusively Hip Hop as if the golden days, the building blocks of Hip Hop are golden oldies - something to be dusted off and played every now and then. When did we get so far away from linear progression. Instead of a linear forward progression we seem to be going in hyper speed having completely jumped the channel. Category mistakes are the norm. We expect them from politics to recreation. There are WMD's!"/ "Oh! No there aren't" - "I know I'm on Saturday Night Live but my band messed up." /"Oh! It wasn't the band it was my throat, everyone has these problems!"(paraphrasing Ashley Simpson). When did it become second nature to never get it right?! When did it become second nature to pick style over substance? Sure, in the entertainment industry things like this have always been going on for some time but some say that art should imitate life. I don't know. Maybe it should be a balance. However now, life absolutely imitates art and popular art is based upon a few, seemingly wealthy people's thought on what life is. If you look around and your life is nothing like what you see on television. That's reality. That's life. Stop squeezing life into a glass box expecting the box not to break. Life dictates: "If you break it, you buy it." And You can't afford it anyway.