Documentaries Can No Longer Be Trusted For Their Superior Acumen

There's no excuse for the decline in creative and intellectual effort when it comes to the progression of mainstream media these days. First we get a documentary with the broad title "Earth," which was supposed to be an all encompassing, straightforward summation of the content of interest. Then we get "Life." Now "Babies"? Seriously? I mean, I know it's going to be a total deliberate awwwfest that I won't ignore, but come on. What ever happened to creative, attractive titles? These blockbuster documentaries are less specific than interests listed on a Livejournal profile. They're like children's non-fiction books, the ones that nerds read for fun and the other kids took out for research reports about dinosaurs and mummies and body systems. To put it simply, befittingly so, it's too fucking vague! I know society has been going through some tough times on the political front and we're trying to stay positive and informed and not overcomplicated, but I want to be inspired to do other things besides sit there in awe at the wonders of life like I'm sitting in a park on mushrooms. It seems like the valley girls of the 80s and the Gen Xers of the 90s are no longer a select division of society, but the standard of common intellect. It's like, no fucking joke dude! As a modern person would say. Fuck, as I would say, and just did say. Technological resources are making the spread of information so vulgarly pedestrian that I'm afraid people are going to start confusing actual knowledge and extensive research with Wikipedia's fundamental factoids.

I would further claim my sniveling misanthropic dissatisfaction with society's complacency and inability to discern mediocrity, but my points are too tentative for a schism. The scroll of misgivings would be a series of vaguely titled documentaries that micro-analyze the history and theory of the erosive peri-apocalyptic atrophy of mankind's collective consciousness. The title would be, "Stupidity." Not to be confused with Mike Judge's comedy, Idiocracy, although they are both becoming frighteningly accurate.

I digress.