How is it possible?

That we have given this woman a television show of her own? At exactly what point in history (contemporary or otherwise) did we, as a society, actually lose it and become so degenerate that we think someone of this vacuous inconsequential manner is worthy of anything, let alone our time?

This is Paris Hilton* and if you let her, she will, on a weekly basis, steal one half hour of your life...you can never get it back and you will not be able to sue her:

"We're in the middle of nowhere, like 45 minutes away from, like, civilization and it's, like, all real. It's, like, really cold and last night we were shooting at this sugar mill and it really smelled bad. And I didn't wear shoes, like, I don't know."

"We're in the middle of nowhere and there's bugs everywhere. Everything's real. I'm actually running through a forest with bare feet -- it hurts. I've done my own stunts, like falling. I hurt my knee -- it was bleeding. But it looks good, so it's worth it."

"I definitely think people are going to be, like, looking at me more than they would if I wasn't, like, so . . . I can't explain it. But I do a good job and I'm really looking forward to people seeing I'm good. It's not fair but life's not fair, so . . ."

This is one individual I would love to see in the middle of any refugee camp. Can we send her to any part of South Africa? Or any of the camps in the Middle East? Ok. Maybe somewhere in Bosnia? Please?