Today the ultimate cool is the denial and refutation of all authority and authenticity as a means to a new virtual authenticity. You can be a teenager forever. Giving full life to this youth-anchored dream of intellectual nihilism is the new show from cable channel HBO called "Candidate 2012." The show promises to make an anonymous person, who must be between the ages of 24 and 29, a legitimate candidate for the President of the United States in the year 2012. The joke that "if Bush Jr. can become President, anyone can" is being taken seriously by a corporate machine that knows what the public wants and intends to deliver us our first "Real World" MTV rock star President. Expect a DJ to make it to the final selection round.
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