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In what direction is our country headed? Do we have such small attention spans that 6 second Vine videos all we can fit into our tiny brains? Apparently the “new normal” consists of shaking our asses for the camera, spending money we don’t have left and right, going to strip clubs, and getting as much plastic surgery as possible to look like Kim Kardashian. There’s even a show on E! called “Botched” which helps people fix their screwed up plastic surgeries they’ve had done in the past. It’s not just twerking that is driving our society into the toilet, it was way before Miley Cyrus decided to dump her good girl wholesome Disney ways. We think that Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” is a good song and that she has so much talent. However, it’s been proven recently that the media is actually trying to brainwash you. They’ve been doing it for years, but it’s the hours we spend in front of our television and computer screens that has killed so much of our brain cells that we have forgotten how to think for ourselves.  We talk/write in less than 140 characters on Twitter, talk about the lives we pretend we have on Facebook, and put up meaningless quotes and pictures of places through a “filter” on Instagram because living real life is just too damn hard.  There are millions of talented artists out there trying to burst onto the scene, but perhaps they’ll never make it. For example, a singer-songwriter who spends hours upon hours a day writing meaningful lyrics who promotes themselves online will not get signed whereas a girl who twerks in a video of a cover song on YouTube will get much more notoriety and possibly a record deal.  We need to be careful who we look up to and aspire to be.  Are we looking up to brainless idiots or intelligent, compassionate individuals? Maybe it’s too late to save all of America, but at least we can save ourselves; one smart person at a time.