Thread:User talk:Reckless Noise Symphony/Saving this for later purposes/reply (4)

I have a very specialized hatred of pop culture. When I was a Junior in high school, we used to have this "Current events quiz" every week that my teacher would administer after dividing the class into two teams. My team would always win. And the reason we always won was because 65% of the questions were actually about things that mattered like, oh I dunno, who President Bush's press secretary was at the time (Ari Fleischer: the same guy who was on TV promoting a war in Iraq that MY generation would have to fight). But, for me, the most horrifying thing was that, every single week, I was the only person in the class who knew about relevant topics that mattered (like who Tom Delay was) and, also, I was the only person who didn't know any of the answers about stupid things like who had won the most recent American Idol season and whatnot. To me, it gave me pause about what that actually said about my peers and, more importantly, about the direction American society was headed toward in general.