Just a quick rant

So here is a situation I found funny. A girl was outside of my bar talking to her friends. The topic of television shows came up and as the group discussed shows like,'So you think you can dance'...blah, blah, babble... At any rate the girl in question fell completely silent. Then one of the group members, seeing that she had fallen out of the conversation, asked her what her favorite TV show was. " I actually don't watch TV, it makes people kinda stupid", was her response. Now, I must explain that this girl was pure, Southern California Debby. One look at her and you are thinking, reality show wannabe, dog in purse, brain in space, tits in the hands of every production assistant in town. So I was actually dumbfounded by the 'no TV', claim. Of course my never failing need to know forced me to strike in, " You never watch TV, really?", I said, "No, not since I was thirteen or so". 'Amazing', was the only thought, a SoCal girly, girl that actually doesn't watch TV as if it is the Holy Grain spilling forth the water of life, I needed to know more. Could this girl actually be intelligent? Was there the possibility that a townie twink like this could actually have a brain, I needed to know. "So, no TV? How do you pass the time then, reading?". This ill fated question, so filled with hope and possibility was met with a response, even worse than I had expected. "Reading? Ha ha ha, no I am not a big reader, that seems like a waste of time too, I only read what i have to for school.". There it was, the big idiocy I was hunting for. "You only read what your teachers tell you to read?" I asked. "Yes", she replied, " Reading is just like TV, it's people telling you what to think about things, it doesn't make you any smarter". Let me once again tell you that this is a real conversation, with a real human being, " So if you don't watch TV and you don't read, how do you find things out about the world around you?" I asked expecting the answer I was about to get. " My professors tell me everything I need to know, I don't need to go out digging for facts that way.". That is what she said, I kid you not. She doesn't need to go digging for facts because people told her all the things she needed to know. "What an idiot", that was my thought. I watch TV, I always have and I will until it dies out, I really enjoy the mind numbing stupidity of it. When you think as much as I do, sometimes you just need to switch off the old brain and watch cartoons. The thing is that I also read... a lot. I love books and words. One of my favorite things is when I read a really good book and my brain
starts popping with new ideas, it's almost like a drug. I don't trust people who don't read, they usually have a very limited vocabulary along with poor conversation skills. More than that, I hate people who believe what they are told, that is exactly the kind of people that are being made in this society, people who believe what they are told. I knew the conversation was over but I like to give people chances to redeem themselves. In the hope of getting a response of national public radio or the like, I asked " Well, how about radio, what kind of programs do you listen to?". " I really like the new Lincoln Park stuff", she responded. "Go away from me please", was my final word on the subject.