Confessions of a dangerous mind Part 2

I'm pretty cool with western pop culture. New stars emerge to displace one another in the hall of fames. Western film makers have the best technology to work with, the most good-looking, the most talented, the funniest and the most well-known actors to cast. Most of all, the movies have unbridled creativity, imagination and depth bankrolled by an unbeatable budget.

Different Asian countries has took turns to capture hearts and entertain the commoners. First it was Hongkong with cantopop stars, celebrities made famous by paparazzi and legendary TV dramas. Soon after it was Japan with its hybrid model of chinese looking stars with blonde hair, act chim serial dramas, silly boy bands and girl bands. And unbelievably the latest craze in Asia is being shared by Taiwan and Korean celebrities with their draggy soap operas and their teeny drama shows with the lousiest dialougue ever imagined. Taiwan produces the most unbelievable talentless celebrities that are hailed as superstars across Asia.
And clearly, the 'star' factor of these many Taiwanese stars are sorely lacking.

I love to entertain and be entertained. It's pretty sick to see the wrong people being recognized and idolised. A clear example will be our very own Singapore Idol runner-up. So something must be very wrong with the heads of people nowadays. Or maybe I'm the one that's insane.

The media has glorified many people to the status that they are not, I'm not talking about celebrities only. Sadly, people are falling blindly into this whole scam, including myself. The other group of people other than stars and celebrities that people remember in their history books are politicans, revolutionaries and philosophers whose decisions and thoughts change the course of the world.

Back then in the oldern days, the biggest war fought was communism and capitalism.
Now, it is about another higher type of ideology : Religion and territorial disputes.

The war between the Arab world and America.
The war between the world and America.
The never ending mayhem between Israelis and Palestians.
Republic of China and the People's republic of China.
North Korea and Iran's nuclear program.

So in the end, years of bloodshed and millions of lives claimed have always been about what's yours and what's mine. Who's wrong and who's right. Your god and my god.

It's not so easy like in the past where people fought over goverment systems and independence. People now are fighting over a blinded faith that spiritually binds them, spiritual power that will give them courage to do the most outrageous things and the most heinous crimes.

People in the world are getting crazier, if not smarter. We are powerless to stop these powerful minds that can change the world.

So 80s is still better, less of such shit and better entertainment and life. Or maybe because we can't forecast the future. But whatever it is, the present is something that I have to live with. And I will embrace it. I will play it to my advantage. I will then learn to appreciate the past a little more, I will then learn how to hate the present and the future a little less and I will take bits and pieces of the past, the present and the future and size them up, compile them into a chain of knowledge, memories and imagination to make myself feel more complete.

From so, I will learn to love the world a little more and procrastinate less.