Decline of the West
Channel-surfing, I came across (on the Horror channel of all places), an episode of the original Star Trek. It was diverting and had some character complexity. One of the guest protagonists was accused by the other guest protagonist of genocide but the latter was no angel himself, so his testimony was suspect. When they returned to their home planet, they found they were the last two of their kind, as in their fifty-year absence, omnicide had been committed. It got me thinking of specific aliens in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Cardassians, who have engaged in extermination of another sentient species.
So what is worse - the Cardassians, a militaristic race governed by a despotic government with Nazi overtones, who have the blood of others on their hands; or the Kardashians, an Armenian-American family whose sole claim to fame is through a series of inane reality TV shows? Kim, the most prominent of her brood, had a baby with Kanye West and called her child, North.
Of course, the Kardashians are the most vile because they are real(ity). Kanye West, admirable musician that he may be, divides opinion like no other of his genre and his much vaunted arrogance is a perfect fit for the fame-hogging family and naming a child 'North' with a surname 'West' is child cruelty.
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