JUST SAY NO TO REALITY
Let it hereby be known, that I have taken a solemn oath to never, ever again, sit and watch the mindless crap that's spewing across the airwaves and satellite signals to be displayed with all its annoying high-definition pathos, under the name of "reality programming".
I find that pointing a camera at people in everyday situations, and instructing them to ignore the camera as they pour out their heart and soul about how their parents were both put in prison while they lived out of a car at the age of 17 and had nothing to their name; to people who have absolutely no interest in caring what is being said, but rather about how they will come across to the rest of their teammates and hopefully not be the weakest link in the chain and get fired by the toupee-jock known as Trump... ceases to maintain my interest. Just like the poorly constructed, run on sentence that you maybe just read.
No matter what real-life situation insanity you might conjur up out of a fever dream, there is some producer ready to put it on film, and sell it to a network.
And the absolutely amazing thing to me is that people get HOOKED to watching each and every episode; as if it matters in their life; as if it was the unfolding of personal stories from someone in their family. Just who out there identifies with the people on Maury Povich's schockfest anyway? It'a ain't entertainment, Mo!
It's a big world and everyone has a right to watch or not watch what they wish.
I have just made it my choice to shun the shit. Give me a sitcom, or drama or movie that actually has a plot, characters, complexity and intelligence. I feel like popping in my Napolean Dynamite DVD.
I find that pointing a camera at people in everyday situations, and instructing them to ignore the camera as they pour out their heart and soul about how their parents were both put in prison while they lived out of a car at the age of 17 and had nothing to their name; to people who have absolutely no interest in caring what is being said, but rather about how they will come across to the rest of their teammates and hopefully not be the weakest link in the chain and get fired by the toupee-jock known as Trump... ceases to maintain my interest. Just like the poorly constructed, run on sentence that you maybe just read.
No matter what real-life situation insanity you might conjur up out of a fever dream, there is some producer ready to put it on film, and sell it to a network.
And the absolutely amazing thing to me is that people get HOOKED to watching each and every episode; as if it matters in their life; as if it was the unfolding of personal stories from someone in their family. Just who out there identifies with the people on Maury Povich's schockfest anyway? It'a ain't entertainment, Mo!
It's a big world and everyone has a right to watch or not watch what they wish.
I have just made it my choice to shun the shit. Give me a sitcom, or drama or movie that actually has a plot, characters, complexity and intelligence. I feel like popping in my Napolean Dynamite DVD.
posted by epiclectic at 9:36 PM
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