Humanity Reaching Lowest Point. Today.

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8:30AM September 25, 2009 | Chris Oaten

Screen shot 2009-09-24 at 5.53.21 AMThe Onion brings us in its usual style a tale of woe, in which a team of international experts predicts that the combined awfulness of humankind’s descent into tastelessness will reach its lowest point at 3.22pm today.

Here’s a taste of the story.

Experts predict that the penultimate catastrophe will occur at approximately 7:15 p.m. Thursday night, when the social networking tool Twitter will be used to communicate a series of ideas so banal they will instantaneously negate the three centuries of the Renaissance.

Actually, we get this. We get this in a big way. Only this week we witnessed a marketing concept so banal its greatest conceit was the company responsible thinking we might actually believe the scenario being presented to us.

And if you think what we speak of is Microsoft’s Windows 7 marketing videos… well, you got it one.

So the question of the day is this. What would you nominate as humankind’s greatest cultural, technological or social shame? Please try to rise above “Apple’s hockey-puck mouse”. Dig deep, people. Dig deep.

[The Onion]

Comments

  • fritz

    September 25, 2009 at 9:57 AM

    /b/…..or pocket vagina, I just can’t decide.

  • James-Mac

    September 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM

    The Snuggie?

  • Captain Pajama Shark

    September 25, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    2 Girls one cup

  • Hugh Van Weeren

    September 25, 2009 at 11:16 AM

    /b/

  • steve

    September 25, 2009 at 11:20 AM

    There are so many things in this world that I hold utter contempt and apathy toward, but id have to say without a doubt that the epitome of my disgust is reserved for the remade star wars films.

  • Selfish_Meme

    September 25, 2009 at 12:23 PM

    I just learned today that the chk-chk boom girl has forged a career out of her 5 minutes of notirousness, the Onion is absolutley right again.

    They oughta get out of comedy and into prognostication.

  • Chris Lowe

    September 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    Gotta be Big Brother doesn’t it.
    Humanity has sunk so low watching a group of unknowns live together is entertainment. Try a book people!

  • Cows Say Moo

    September 25, 2009 at 2:22 PM

    My pick would be… Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy.

  • Jeff

    September 26, 2009 at 8:25 PM

    The Holocaust

  • elle

    September 28, 2009 at 11:51 PM

    Actually, it says western civilization, not humanity as a whole. just thought i would clear that up

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