I'm not all that smart or deep or even very good at spelling, so my discussions wont be enlightening. It makes me sad, but it's reality.
I watch alot of TV and I've noticed myself dismissing alot of it as drivel, depressing, or enough of the same-y crap thatI can summurize in just enough time to change the chanel. I find myself sticking to the same channels, such as comedy central or cartoon network. I'm also not sure if it's my fault or not. The news is often one-sided and extremely tunnel visioned, only covering what is a major catastrophy or some AMERICAN hero. So it either makes me sad, or angry. USA normally has either rape or murder on its mind, the BBC has gotten outragiously stagnant. Speaking of the BBC If the doctor doesn't start going back to his roots, he's going to end up being a flat, bland, white stickman. Fix it. To top it all off, Discovery, History, and NatGeo just aren't anymore. Animal Planet is hardly about animals anymore, and more about humans who work around or are attacked by animals. ScyFy, with its stupid new name, is getting worse too. I remember watching it a while back and it had great new ideas, but now it seems like the Scyfy is run by the same evil grey-building bastards that are putting out the old movie remakes, sequals, and ad-fueled idiocy that have infected, well, everything else. I've had my friends forcing me to sit and watch It's Sunny, and guess what? It's dumb. Really dumb. And it's like it's everywhere. Has America really become so progressively stupid that our Comedy is now fart and sex jokes, our news shallow, our dramas bland, and our action not complete unless it has a minimum of three explosions and five car chases? Wait, I digress a little. Starz and Showtime has put out some good stuff. I love Dexter and did love Sparticus, but even on networks which has put out such interesting shows has stuff like Californication. Yay sex jokes. Thats not even a step forward and back. It's like walking in a circle on the peak of a hill.
And I know people are going to snap and troll me and whatever, but looking at our TV then looking at how it's influenced people around me, (And that's everywhere I go folks, from cities great an small.) I'm starting to see similarities to Idiocracy. I'm not saying You in particular, but if you do get angry at this, you do kind of help prove my point. I cant walk around without a Family Guy refference hitting me, or some such other stupid shit. Our media does affect us, so look around. Nut shots and puke are the most saught after searches on the internet, energy drinks are taking over the beverage industry, we're giving our teachers the shaft, corperations are more interested in money than people, anyone who disagree's with you is a heretic... Hell, even insults are no longer creative. You know what would be awesome. TV boycot. Refuse the media until it gives us what we need. Smarter programming, less intrusive selling, and creative thought. It's not hard. They had it all before, so they can get it all back.
On the other hand we might be to stupid to care. But stupid is as stupid does.
--Joe
I watch alot of TV and I've noticed myself dismissing alot of it as drivel, depressing, or enough of the same-y crap thatI can summurize in just enough time to change the chanel. I find myself sticking to the same channels, such as comedy central or cartoon network. I'm also not sure if it's my fault or not. The news is often one-sided and extremely tunnel visioned, only covering what is a major catastrophy or some AMERICAN hero. So it either makes me sad, or angry. USA normally has either rape or murder on its mind, the BBC has gotten outragiously stagnant. Speaking of the BBC If the doctor doesn't start going back to his roots, he's going to end up being a flat, bland, white stickman. Fix it. To top it all off, Discovery, History, and NatGeo just aren't anymore. Animal Planet is hardly about animals anymore, and more about humans who work around or are attacked by animals. ScyFy, with its stupid new name, is getting worse too. I remember watching it a while back and it had great new ideas, but now it seems like the Scyfy is run by the same evil grey-building bastards that are putting out the old movie remakes, sequals, and ad-fueled idiocy that have infected, well, everything else. I've had my friends forcing me to sit and watch It's Sunny, and guess what? It's dumb. Really dumb. And it's like it's everywhere. Has America really become so progressively stupid that our Comedy is now fart and sex jokes, our news shallow, our dramas bland, and our action not complete unless it has a minimum of three explosions and five car chases? Wait, I digress a little. Starz and Showtime has put out some good stuff. I love Dexter and did love Sparticus, but even on networks which has put out such interesting shows has stuff like Californication. Yay sex jokes. Thats not even a step forward and back. It's like walking in a circle on the peak of a hill.
And I know people are going to snap and troll me and whatever, but looking at our TV then looking at how it's influenced people around me, (And that's everywhere I go folks, from cities great an small.) I'm starting to see similarities to Idiocracy. I'm not saying You in particular, but if you do get angry at this, you do kind of help prove my point. I cant walk around without a Family Guy refference hitting me, or some such other stupid shit. Our media does affect us, so look around. Nut shots and puke are the most saught after searches on the internet, energy drinks are taking over the beverage industry, we're giving our teachers the shaft, corperations are more interested in money than people, anyone who disagree's with you is a heretic... Hell, even insults are no longer creative. You know what would be awesome. TV boycot. Refuse the media until it gives us what we need. Smarter programming, less intrusive selling, and creative thought. It's not hard. They had it all before, so they can get it all back.
On the other hand we might be to stupid to care. But stupid is as stupid does.
--Joe
