Perez Hilton is developing a sub culture of the worst kind of people imaginable. As someone who works in the music industry and needs to contently be up to date on what is going on online, I skim Perez Hilton for a few seconds a couple times a week. Every time I am on that site i get this sick to my stomach feeling. The things he posts and the way he carries himself is so tacky. He is like the most popular kid in the trailer park, thats just the reality.

I don’t want to turn this into a shit talking fest, because then I suppose I will be just as bad as him, but I wanted to point out his effects on American culture. What is mind blowing to me is that someone like Perez Hilton, an insecure man without any journalistic integrity, credibility or proper education in his field is far more culturally influential then the President of the United States or any significant moral figure in our culture today. It shows the extreme disconnect in the country as to what is “right and wrong” and the demise of credibility in mass media and our government. People no longer look up to those in positions they are supposed to look up to, instead they idolize people that traditionally have absolutely no qualities necessary to idolize. Its a complete demise of moral responsibility and a new wave of what is determined as “cool”.  The para dime has shifted, and it fucking sucks.

Take a moment to read some of the comments on Perez’s website and you will get what I am talking about. Recently Casey from Hawthorne Heights passed away in his sleep, yet the kids who call Perez Hilton’s website their homepage have no regards to this tragedy.  The problem is that Perez has made a spectical of so many situations, that they become not real.  People who are avid visitors of any tabloid magazine have been “dumbed down” to the extent that informational intake is no longer about finding truth, but finding a few minutes of excitement to fill the void in their lives.  Perez is breeding the worst type of generation, a type that has no separation between real and fake.

When the lines are blurred between reality and fantasy, danger happens.  Kids will become more able to commit “immortal” acts (for lack of better word) because of the lack of understanding to what it is they are exactly doing.  Kids will become more able to bring a gun to school or even commit suicide, merely trying to discover the romantic side of these acts, unknowing that they are actually doing things that have a reaction.

Now, I suppose many are reading this and saying “wow Jay, you sound like a conservative prick” and I suppose that statement would be somewhat accurate.  With that said I am all for free speech, equality and for us having the free will to fuck up our lives in whichever way we find fit, but all I am doing here is stating a reality.  Toss whatever arguement you want my way, hurl any insults but at the end of the day, there is a reaction to your choice of actions, wither you want to admit it or not.  I am just pointing out what should be obvious, but thanks to people like Perez Hilton, it isn’t.