Wednesday, June 30, 2010

I Fear For America

I find it really weird when people go out and buy something for a million dollars that came from a celebrity or something shaped like Jesus. Remember when someone saw Jesus in a potato chip and it sold on eBay for like a million dollars? So weird. It’s going to disintegrate eventually right? Or remember the time a member of N*Sync bit into a waffle and that sold on eBay for a million dollars? That’s going to mold fast.

Well, recently someone bought x-rays of Marilyn Monroe’s chest for $45,000. Why? What are you going to do with those? I could replicate that and no one would be the wiser. Some people go nuts for things celebrities have touched. I can understand going gaga over an autographed picture because you know the celebrity touched it or the pen they used to sign the picture, but a waffle they chewed on and an x-ray? Come on people.

A glove Michael Jackson wore just sold for $190,00 as well. This one may be a little more understandable because it’s lined in jewels and what not, but I’m sure that it would have sold for that amount even if there weren’t any jewels. The thing that bothers me is that these people did nothing. Yes, entertainment is huge and I have my favorites celebrities as well, but they didn’t bring peace to the world or stop hunger. They sang a song and recited some lines. Why don’t people want to buy a pen from Abraham Lincoln for $50,000? The state of our world worries me sometimes.

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