Instant Nostalgia - 7/2/2008

Vh-1's "I love the 80's" was great fun.  Who doesn't love looking back while quasi-celebrities and failed comedians make snarky comments about your fond childhood memories?  It worked because the 20 plus years since then has given us time to acknowledge how desperately retarded yet incredibly fun that decade was....and now we can revisit that time with the benefit of hindsight and mock our past stupidity relentlessly!  Retrospect as pop-satirical fun!

But now Vh-1 has gone and made "I Love the New Millennium", a program that should not even be contemplated for a good decade, at LEAST.  I don't understand the reason behind it's creation.  How can something that happened a few years ago qualify as nostalgic?  Oh, I remember in the olden days when terrorists hijacked our freedoms and changed the face of the world forever.  Those were the days!  I'll concede that the show is addictive, but it has no right to exist.  I mean, what's next?  "I Love the Last Few Seconds of my Life?"  They already have "Best Week Ever", a show that glamorizes the scintillating drama of daily pop-culture and thus renders every accomplishment and actual achievement in this world irrelevant.  When the mundane is treated as significant, all greatness loses it's meaning.  Elsworth Toohey, from Ayn Rand's the Fountainhead....completely understood this, and used it as a means to undermine talent and take power away from the individual.  I pray that those in power aren't creating these shows for the same purpose.