Forget fame I'll take the money

I don't know when it started. Maybe when I was a wee one reading Mad Magazine or flipping through Life Magazine during piano lessons (where i learned how to sleep through anything, even the lesson itself!) but for some reason magazines can grab my attention like no other. I have so many favorite articles that I'm sadden as they are like dust in the wind and gone with each issue.

From an essay in Bicycle Guide Magazine on the joys of riding not a sleek lean European beauty but an old beater 10 speed that the author used while just starting to compete... To the essay in Snowboarding Magazine relaying the joys of snowboarding on fresh "pow" (newly fallen powder snow) or carving up a freshly groomed slope... or even the informative comparisons of main battle tanks between the cold war countries vs. NATO countries in International Combat Arms... I love magazines and the information, stories, and opinions they bring.

Esquire Magazine had a piece by the editor that I believe to be very insightful and poignant. Simply stated "The Rich Don't YouTube" (April 2007, Editor's Letter).

It's a very thought provoking article and I think about it every time i read a blog (even mine). Have we become so simple? So needy and of so low self esteem that we have to have ourselves broad casted to the masses because we feel like crap day in and day out in work, school, relationships, ... everywhere? I never really got what they meant by "the opiate of the masses" until the editor compared it to our day and age... Yikes. We are in sad shape as a society if this is what we need to do to feel empowered. I hope this phase in our culture ends soon as I don't think I can stand anymore reality tv shows or competitions. I don't need the fame and blogging, not a big deal either... a novelty. Now a million bucks... bring it on!