Sugar coated, Day 52

Artificial flavor and color wrapped up in a pretty package. This is how most things seem to be presented whether it's politics, food, television, technology, the environment, religion, the economy, entertainment, and relationships. I don't mean to view the world through a glass half empty perspective, but it's difficult at times not to. I see our society as seriously doomed when the "King of Pop" suddenly dies and this gets more press coverage than political protests in Iran or all the Palestinians being killed in Gaza. I just don't get it, and yet at the same time I have bought into it just as much as anybody else.