Fear and Fiction

Dear Characters,

Television. The greatest form of communication for the 20th century and is slowing becoming replaced with internet sources, however not fast enough to keep people from buying big screen TVs, Blue Ray Dvd players, Surround Sound, a Giant Fucking Couch/Chair, Sometimes 3D glasses, and a shit ton of snacks to eat while you view to your extreme pleasure. If you're a girl you might buy a dildo for your porn, and a man thankfully uses a 'free' hand.

So you have all these entertainment enhancers at your disposal, not that you have all of them but you get comfortable in front of the TV. Now you watch LOST, HOUSE, CSI MIAMI, VH1, CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS, TNT, SPIKE, CARTOON NETWORK (if you have kids I hope), ESPN, C-SPAN (NOT), TBS, and the list goes on for miles and miles. You are influenced by every single one of the networks you watch. You have so many sources of entertainment it saturates television, like a fat pig and his slop.

You have all your entertainment enhancers, now at this point the show you pay good money for, becomes pretty realistic. The gun shot wounds of an action movie sound and look as if it happened right in front of you. You're brain searches for the memory of the last scab you peeled and a chemical reaction happens in your brain as the sequence of events happens on the TV. Now you can even smell the flesh and blood of the actor as he cries out in agony and shoots back. You're in the middle of the gun fight and your heart races, races! Especially if this is your first experience. The crime scene biopsies seem as though you could walk into the room and see the dead body in the morgue.

The news sells you all the bad news and you see the yellow tape and the flashing lights of cop cars surrounding a store not too far from you. As a matter of fact you recognize the shop you visit three times a year out of the three-hundred and sixty days it is open. Hell! A child molester was found in the next state over a hundred miles away from you, he even worked at an elementary school. The TV is right in front of you though and you can join into the action right there, in front of you, in your own room. At work you can discuss the terrible fate of what is usually someone senile or idiotic because this shit rarely happens to a normal person.

CUT TO COMMERCIAL! Here, these drugs will help you with your depression, your anxieties, fears! Afraid to be home alone at night? Call this hot line and a cute chick will come talk to you, pork her in the process my good sir, we want to take care of that erection - and ladies we only send the men with the biggest dick, doesn't matter if you're 40-50 as long as you PAY.

And the scammers laugh at you when you buy a new home security system because a break in is almost statistically impossible for an individual dwelling.

Politicians love you when you get so scared you come to the city hall meetings and you cry for help, you squeal with your emotional arguments, expanding government control and regulation. More cops are hired, so many that they've got nothing to do but sit on their ass writing you speeding tickets costing you more money than just taxes even though you wanted the police there in the first place. Then the cops laugh when they abuse people and can get away with it. Bully cops had to be hired because you wanted more and in order to do that you had to sacrifice the quality of the cop.

You invited fear into your home because of the fictional shit that statistically doesn't happen. That child molester wasn't anywhere near you and you were afraid about the integrity of the school system you grew up with and now have kids going to. BUT IT DID HAPPEN DIDN'T IT? Right in your LIVING ROOM. You got a first hand experience, the first scoop! Then you got so worried at night because some tree branch was scratching the side of your house you ended up with anxieties, you became depressed because of your sad life and wanted more medication to shove down your throat!

Then the doctors laugh at you because they sold you something that makes you more sick, so you can come visit again. Give you drugs that have certain effects and strange chemical reactions.

Despite all this you say, "I REFUSE TO GET INVOLVED WITH VIOLENCE!" despite that's where you enjoy being with your CSI, RAMBO, CNN. You play victim and you always need a helper (cops, drugs, prostitutes). All you had to do was spend maybe $25 on a small gun, more for the extra bullets, and no one would interrupt your happy paradise. You like the heart pumping adrenalin through you, watching those shows with the flashy lights. Why so scared to live it? Hell, women without STD's dig a man with a gun. Women with knives are pretty damn sexy. Might as well keep the entertainment dons from making a killing off your fears from fiction.

You love it, why don't you participate in this world of ENTERTAINMENT.

Sincerely,

The Character