Ok. I have a serious problem with reality programming as it is due to its ungodly depictions and editing of camera hungry lost souls, but this "Super sweet 16" show features some of the most vapid, unlikable, self absorbed young people to walk the earth. I was breezing through channels, and stopped at this aberration for some unknown reason. I watched about 3-4 minutes (which I will never get back) of some 16 year old megalomaniac fly into her party in a helicopter, and had a small tantrum when no one was there to see her arrive in such a glorious, superior fashion. MTV is a despicable network for showing these superficial, empty-shelled caricatures of humans to other kids, or adults for that matter. The not-so-funny-thing-is is that the parents are even worse than the children (the kids just haven't had as much time to develop their nauseating views and behaviors yet). I'm glad that today's society places so much importance on what teens think and do since they have lived so long, gathered so much experience, and through this, can give the world so much wisdom about things like cell phones, cool, heavily-produced music, daddy's credit card, and how it's lame to be old. Other societies must look at ours and just shake their heads; we've allowed ourselves to be distracted by the most useless of "entertainment" that make for some of the most shamelessly unaware individuals that exist. I think that it's largely because the media has hijacked a huge section of the populace's mindset. I had to write this because we live in a world filled with striking dichotomies that need to be addressed, and not avoided only because the truth would make everyone living too comfortably a little too contrite; we should not be looking for cheap, tv/circus side shows, but, instead, seeking a personal way to improve the rapidly worsening condition of the world we share.