Democracy Is Overrated

Last month, a strange new ad appeared on your television sets.

In case you don’t have a fast connection, the following words roll up the screen over the image of a beauty pageant:

Why are we sitting watching I Wanna be the Galaxy’s Best Supernova Diva Star?
Dutifully phoning in our votes for the next big thing while we wait on our couches to die.
Continue in this so-called democracy and you just might stop thinking for yourself
That’s when you are officially dead.

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