The 2011 TIME 100 Poll Results

[dana_b]

are scaring me, so far. Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Susan Boyle and Rain are more influential that President Obama, the Fukushima power plant workers and a list of world leaders and scientists? Really?? We are a scary society.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058044_2061021_2061023,00.html

btw - you can still vote:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058044_2060338_2060034,00.html

[valerief]

1. Does anyone read Time? nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. I know what rain is. that stuff falling outside now.

Lady Gag? Isn't she some self-promoting attention whore?

Beyonce? That one's beyond me. I really have no clue. Couldn't pick him out of a crowd of rappers, Grunge, or Ska artists.

Boyle? Isn't she some Englishwoman with a good voice? I seem to recall she looks extremely English.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Fundamental flaw in democracy. Every idiot gets a vote. Too many idiots and you are fucked

We simply have too many idiots.

[dana_b]

4. lol - or just too many people who don't pay attention/don't care n/t

[Faygo Kid]

5. Does anybody really know what Time it is? Does anybody really care?

I think not.

[Warpy]

6. Kids with turds for brains seem to rule much of the online world

while their elders still seem to cling to other, older forms of expression.

It's rare that something interesting at all is trending at Twitter, for instance, or that a search of 10,000+ channels on an IRC net turns up more than a handful of channels that aren't either porno or celebrity.

Maybe as they lose more bread they'll become less obsessed by circuses.