For Love or Money

I am drawn to stupidity like a deer hypnotized by the headlights of an oncoming truck racing at breakneck speed towards it. Unlike the deer, who probably doesn’t have the brain capacity to realize that the truck can kill it if it stays riveted to the spot, I am fully aware that reality TV is the spawn of Satan. But there’s just something about it that’s so…hypnotizing. I wouldn’t actually make my schedule revolve around reality TV shows. But whenever I am within earshot or eyeshot of shows like The Simple Life or For Love or Money, I swear, my eyes just stay glued to the TV and I degenerate into a drooling idiot.

It’s funny because in spite of the fact that we don’t have class tomorrow, I felt guilty for not doing any studying on a weekday. So I decided to pull out the handouts for my Social Theory class and read them. There was lots of pretty interesting stuff in there about the philosophy of history and those stupid Romantics. But halfway through my intellectual endeavor, my sister changed the channel to Star TV, where For Love of Money was just starting. I tried to filter out the noise from the TV as best as I could. Really. But when I heard that two bimbos from the previous season who hate each other are coming back to fight for the “love” of the 15 guys in the show…I broke. I know it’s incredibly stupid and it makes no sense whatsoever but suddenly, finding out what will happen to those bimbos when they see each other for the first time since the last season seemed more interesting than learning about transcendental consciousness according to Kant.

So the blonde bimbos saw each other waiting at the foyer, and the bitchier one started picking on the one who was too shocked to say anything more than “Hi!”, and at that point I realized that I valued my IQ way too much to spend another minute of my time watching that show. So I went back to my room and picked up my handout. To my horror, I couldn’t comprehend the sentence that came after the one I stopped at. And this is why I am here, writing about how incredibly hypnotic stupid people can be. Hey, at least I’m not watching the rest of For Love or Money. ;p