May 12, 2013
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HBO Vice
I don’t know how many of yous have the HBO, but they recently premiered a new half hour, well for lack of a better term, news magazine called Vice. Although you might not be too familiar with the show, those of you who even slightly follow the news might remember a few months ago when NBA hall of famer Dennis Rodman went to North Korea and had a date with Kim Jong Un. Like the rest of the world, you might have asked “what the fuck is Dennis Rodman doing in North Korea and how exactly did he become the only American to meet their tiny dictator Kim Jong Un?” Well it turns out that Vice sent him there for whatever reason.
The show is nothing if not fascinating and interesting and I have learned lots in the six episodes that have aired thus far. The shit they cover are things that normally would not be covered by the mainstream media. Or if it is covered, it wouldn’t be as graphic and free, which is the benefit of HBO. There is just no way that the reports on basic cable or network t.v. will ever use the word fuck the way the Vice reporters use it. Perhaps I’m just a tad bit immature, but I like that they can and do swear; shit after all it is how we speak in everyday life.
The stories though have been totally fucking nuts. It has seriously made me sit back and question “what the fuck is wrong with humanity?” It has also made me really appreciate just how good we have it here in the United States. There were some stories in India that really blew my mind. For example, while we think the gap between the rich and the poor is vast here in America, it is nothing compared to in Mumbai. You have the destitute and desperately poor who are so poor that the only place they can afford to live is at work, sleeping underneath their sowing machines. Could you even imagine that? Literally never leaving work? But with the street conditions in Mumbai, I don’t know if I would want to leave; they don’t have proper plumbing so the sewage runs freely in the streets. Meanwhile, the very rich are VERY FUCKING INSANELY FUCKING RICH. And they like to show it off too. One of the guys who lives in Mumbai is so rich that his home is a 27 story building! Let me be sure you understand, it’s not like out here where you have a rich person who lives in a high rise luxury condo with other rich people. This dude built this building for only he and his family to live in; it is a single family home. Meanwhile just a short ways away people are living on top of each other in their own filth.
Wow, just how upbeat is that? Nevertheless, if you have HBO check the show out if nothing else than to educate yourself on how other parts of the world are living.
