Life Is Short

If aliens from another planet arrived here and could speak our language and use our Internet, which of course they could because they would be so much more advanced than us, having kept themselves hidden for millennia, they would be stupefied by most of what they find. Humans, with the exception of Elon Musk, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, are pathetic. Equipped with incredible brain power, they squander it on things like this:

1. A popular home video is titled something like "What I Eat in A Day As A 150-pound Mom of Three" or "What I Eat In A Day While Dieting to Lose 100 Pounds." They then photograph all their meals and show us how they look eating them.

2. Brides-to-be model three or four different wedding gowns and ask strangers online who are stupid enough to watch them which looks best.

3. Videos of pretend-recipes for giant wedding cakes or complicated casseroles go on and on, showing innumerable ingredients -- Cool Whip is often included -- that look gross and incongruous. These might run 30 minutes or more, and always engender tons of viewer comments like, "This looks disgusting," or "Is this for real, when will they get done with it?" 

The time wasted by hundreds of thousands of people watching inane videos might be spent learning a new language, reading books, exercising or even curing cancer. Almost any other activity would be more beneficial to society. Really, life is short and it gets shorter every day -- for everyone.