Part of the problem with today’s society is TALENT SHOWS.
I mean, what is the appeal, exactly?
You stand in front of four ‘judges’ who are about 700 years old between them, have had several hundred plastic surgeries between them, and all conspire to shatter the ill-concieved dreams of the contestants. (I’m mostly talking about X Factor here.)

And look what they’ve done to the world!

— Schools holding amatuer versions of Britain’s Got Talent, where bored teenagers show off their supposed ‘talents’ to other bored teenagers and some teachers who’d rather be elsewhere that hearing a 15 year old girl warble her way through Snow Patrol’s “Run.”

— Parents who’ve lost their chance at getting famous at something they never had the talent for anyway, forcing their kids to do something on the telly for a bit of ill-gotten fame (remember that little girl who cried on Britain’s Got Talent? Horrifying…)

You get the gist.

So how would I alter history?

Simple:

I’d travel back to 2000 and destroy the ITV studios!!!