Thursday, January 1, 2009

Fond goodbye to 2008

Reasons why 2009 won't be better than 2008.


    Why 2008 was such a good year:
  • The Dark Knight. Legendary Film.
  • Wall-E. Another instant classic film.
  • Giants over the Patriots in the Super Bowl. The Tyree Catch.
  • Feed the Animals by Girl Talk. GO DOWNLOAD THIS ALBUM NOW, name your own price!
  • Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
  • Beijing's coming out party (Summer Olympics, minus fake fireworks, lip syncing, and underage girls)
  • I graduated!!!


    Why 2009 won't be a good year:
  • Sadly, President-elect Obama cannot live up to expectations, although he will be a welcome change for many.
  • We will feel the real effects of the market slowdown (instead of just the hysteria, as we have felt so far)
  • Black people no longer have an excuse.... but they (as an overgeneralized stereotypical group) will continue to blame "The Man." Heck the President of the most powerful country in the world (AKA "The Man") is half black.
  • Censorship will become an issue worldwide. See Australia and the UK.
  • No Formula One race in North America

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I'm a bit more optimistic about the censorship thing not catching on, even though history does show Internet censorship has been most successful when implemented by countries as a whole. (I.E. searches in China for "Tiananmen Square" are eerily rid of anything to do with Tank Man)

Far too often, censorship is done in order to protect us, i.e. the "think of the children" argument.

The broader issue however is attempts to manipulate how people perceive information, regardless of whether it is censorship or not. Censorship is just the most blatant of those and for that reason I find it hard to believe it'll be successful.