Bam Margera Should Be Killed

He's asking for it, I really think he is.

When "browsing" the programmes on television, I sometimes end up on MTV, a channel I hate heartily. There are mainly three reasons why I hate it: the obscene amount of commercials, more bad music than good music, and the growing number of filthy and sick programmes. First, there was Jackass, that was dumb but that was fun, probably because nothing like that had been done before and all these silly pain-loving guys had some sort of charisma that you could almost call the charisma of first-timer performers.

Some things were not fun though, some were plain stupid and disgusting, and the more the show went on, the more they decided to go in that direction, probably because they were lacking new "fun" ideas. So they choose to explore more and more disturbing and filthy concepts. Basically there is a limit between harmless silly fun and something more gross which goes beyond the basic rules of human decency and morals. Jackass walked the line between them for a while and then decided to jump into the dirt, so did MTV.

After the success of Jackass and the team splitted, they needed something more extreme, because that's how MTV and our decadent world works (especially in USA it seems), it always has to be more, to go beyond the first experience to be sure people will not get tired and still buy it or watch it. The Simpsons for instance, which was a good show in its first seasons, has turned into something pathetic for a few years now, because the makers strive to make the jokes even bigger, even more fun and ended up with a cartoon which has become so insanely incoherent that it's not fun anymore, just pathetic.

Because of The Osbourne, MTV bought other "famous" people's reality shows (boring crap like Newlyweds, where we can just see how dumb the girl is) and because of Jackass, MTV created more trash. One of these programmes is Dirty Sanchez, I must have watched 2 minutes of it, I didn't need more to realize I did not want to watch it. All I remember is people sticking pipes in their ass, throwing up and drinking what they collected or something like that. Real scatology on TV, this is the point we have reached. When you see or hear about it, you know for sure there's no God as described in the Bible, unless he's dead as some philosophers suggest (Nietzche ?), because it took him less offense before he decides to put an end at Sodom and Gomorrah.

Despite that example, I'm not a religious person, but with or without religion, I believe there are limits that should not be crossed, rules that should never be broken, the basics of human dignity and intelligence. I know some people lack completely these values, yet they should not be allow to ruin them anyway. I don't like the concept of God like it is depicted in Bible and some other religions, but I wouldn't mind a god who would wipe out from the surface of the earth a bit of that filth and the persons who produce it along with it. Anyway, I am perhaps even more appalled at Bam Margera's programme than I was at those 2 minutes of scatology dementia.

If we were living in another time, I don't think he would be making fun and hurting his family, and making money with it like he does, I think he would be whether in jail or dead after a short criminal carreer. That's all what he is, a small-time criminal, who has the chance to live at a time when he can become rich, famous and also loved by hurting people around him and not showing any respect to them. He is nothing but a little piece of shit, and I'm worried for people who might deem him anything more.

We have reached that point when individuals are excused to do the most disgusting and disrespectful things on behalf of the freedom of expression and the power of television. What these people do, if they were doing it without the support of the television, they would be (rightfully) arrested for it. In his show, Bam Margera basically humiliates his family. He's been humiliating and harrassing his parents since Jackass, now he continues with them and the rest of his family. Yesterday I watched that episode where they have this family gathering and they make all sort of ridiculous things; his grandmother was there too and the poor woman is appalled at what's happening, calling her own family crazy.

There is something so revulsing in the way Bam Margera treats his family, perhaps it works as a therapy for him, perhaps otherwise he would kill them (when in fact, what he really needs, is to kill himself), but you cannot help wishing someone would beat the crap out of this little giggling jerk. The attitude of the family is actually revulsing too and that's perhaps the only reason why this show is still tolerable, because they are humiliated, treated like trash, but accept it. I don't know for which reason they accept this (for money I hope, not for the love of their son !), I just know it makes feel a bit less sorry for them. The way he treats his family is so offending, and yet it is shown on a channel watched by adolescents and young adults who for most of them still live with their parents. It's scary to think what he's showing them, the way he allows himself to hurt his parents, it's also scary to think what will be of the children of people like Bam Margera. If they receive his influence, if they get as bad as him, the worst is bound to happen. Hopefully, this might have the reverse effect on the next generation, which will reject the influence of such parents.

Another time in the show also, the first time actually I watched it I think, he was breaking glasses in his own house just to bother his girlfriend, who looked very tired and sick of him. He really brings hell to people. I don't seriously wish him to die (the title and first line of this entry was meant to be provocative and catchy), I don't wish him to be killed - although, in his behaviour, I think he does everything to encourage people to reach such heights of hatred in their mind - but I wish he pays for what he's been doing, I wish his popularity ends just as abruptly as it started. I wish him to know real misery and pain, and that all the one he inflicted to others, he receives it in return. Here's a new idea for his show, before he or MTV runs out of ideas and tries something even more gross: make one episode where anyone who knows him can do anything to him they want and can be shown on TV.