Step Aside Nobels....

What does it say about our society that the Emmy's have so much glitz and attention and the Nobel Prizes are quietly announced in the news? Is this bad? Good? Appropriate?

What kind of world do we live in nowadays? We live in a world where the actors who do the best at playing a cop on TV show or the show where the worst singers draw in the most viewers are more popular than scientific innovation. What a sad, sad world that is.

But why is this? Could it be because people aren't as entertained by scientific discoveries as they used to be? I think the most logical explanation is simple: entertainment. Everyone loves Law and Order and American Idol, but most people don't get really excited about quantum mechanics. Anyone, please try to refute that.

Chances are, you don't know who won the Nobel Prize this year for Physics. I sure don't. I'm not even positive they've had the awards ceremony yet. But I'll bet you know who won Best Comedy TV Show this year at the Emmys. Or Best Picture this year at the Oscars. Is this a bad thing? No. Does it have the potential to be a bad thing? Absolutely.

I am not saying that the Emmy's or TV shows are bad for us. In fact, TV shows are a lot of fun, and they bring us a lot of enjoyment. But everything is about glamour and ostentaciousness, and the world is slowly becoming more and more shallow and swimming farther and farther away from the mainland (where we used to be).