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‘Popular Opinion' is a joke
for so many reasons.
My favourite example of course,
is the democratic political system...
one of the fairly popular popularity contests.
There's this lovely word
that goes
RIGHT
along with this whole ‘popular opinion' concept.
It's called ‘majority'.
Majority, what a funny word.
You see, to win an election, you get the ‘majority' of votes.
No you don't.
You just have to get more than the other guys.
And if the other guys get 10, 23, 31 and 33%
then all you need is 34%
of the vote
to win...
And that's no majority.
You wanna see how?
Because then...
THEN
after the 34%...
there's 66% left.
66 is bigger than 34.
Therefore, there is no majority.
66% of the people don't want the person who's elected.
66% of the people HATE who won.
So the winner didn't win by
majority, Shannon...
They won
mostly because of a fluke...
Not because they were better,
they just have more ‘popularity'.
Meaning they're more
a) radio-friendly
b) 'catchy' or
c) attractive, and girls drool over their manicured image...
Heh, girls kind of like you, Shannon...
You drooling idiot.
Now as for music...
If it weren't for Canadian Content rules,
they wouldn't have a prayer.
The Canadian Content rules keep comatose musical acts alive, by way of intervention.
Anywhere else, they'd be booed off the stage,
but we HAVE to listen to them here in Canada
because the government says we do
or they shut the radio stations down.
And it just so happens
that your favourite music
that gets (over)played every 15 minutes
doesn't say a damn thing...
Which is another reason the government
LOVES it
when you love it.
And you say, "Hooray for Canada! Canada rocks!"
And you forget that 1 in 5 kids are below the poverty line.
You forget about the segment of the population that is
functionally illiterate
because Raine don't sing about bums.
(Well, not the homeless type, anyhow)
And because David Usher don't sing about misuse of government funds...
(the cost of one ballistic missile with ten nuclear warheads (a common thing, really) costs the same as vitamin A supplements for 100,000,000 children for one year, didja know that?)...
then you don't question things as much.
And part of you slips away...
As you sing along...
So pointless.
*sigh*
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