This Honey Child is a Real Boo-Boo: Response

I could not agree more with Mitch Albom. Honey Boo-Boo Childand shows like it are horrible shows. In Honey Boo-Boo alone, you have a mothernot saving any money for college, a pregnant teenage sister, an extremelyun-healthy lifestyle and an exploited six year old. Any one of those alone isworthy enough for a spot on Dr. Phil's couch, but together it is two millionpeople's "guilty pleasure". While reading the article I could notgrasp how every week people could watch such a show; how two million people canjust sit back and watch the epitome of everything a human should not be. I didmy own research and I found a video where Dr. Drew tastes Honey Boo-Boo's"Go-Go Juice", he began sweating and his mouth started swelling as hecalled for a commercial break. He told the audience that he could not focus andhe was shaking uncontrollably. A grown man almost had a seizer from taking asip of this drink and Honey Boo-Boo's mother is giving it too he like there isno tomorrow. I saw clips of the show where Honey Boo-Boo's sister is getting anultrasound and she is only fifteen, MTV would not even put her on the air butthere she is. In multiple clips I’ve seen the cost of the pageants that wouldbelieve it or not cost up to twenty-five thousand dollars, and forget aboutcollege funds because the way Honey Boo-Boo's mom sees it is "My daughteris participating in a sport like basketball so why should I not spend money onmy child and save it, when all other parents can spend money on their child’ssports". Of course Honey Boo-Boo loves going to pageants (Honey Boo-Boo's"sport"), what six year old girl doesn't like getting dressed up as aprincess, but she's six! She doesn't know what’s best for her (and apparentlyher Mom and Mom's boyfriend don’t know either). She's just a six year old beingexploited by her family to gain fame, and I do not know why child serviceshaven’t picked her up by now. It’s probably because, in the words of MitchAlbom, "We don't want to think, we want to be amused. We don't want totry, we want to feel superior. We don't want to correct people, we would rathermock them. We don't do, we watch." This couldn’t be truer, and what betterproof of this than Tony Scott's tragic death, no one tried to stop him.Everyone just watched and recorded it. I only hope, as I watch society jump toits own end, that enough people are recording the action. So one day, years after we are gone our future relatives can be able to watch first hand where we went wrong.