It has been said “Necessity is the birth of invention.”
With that having been said we are all feeling the crunch of these difficult economic times. Television however, doesn’t seem to have caught on to this.
The television shows are still showing the same programs that portray the rich and famous partying, so called “ugly people” getting the best job in the world, and those poor souls lost on an island with more food and provisions available to them than the average American family can even afford to buy on their paydays. Don’t ask where all that food, ammunition and shampoo comes from – it’s like Gilligan’s Island with the castaways and the Professor making a working radio from coconut shells. Just go with it.
Just for the record - I am 5′8″ and was 8 pounds over the cutoff weight so I couldn’t get a stewardess job. I may have obviously been the 8 pounds over that would have brought the plane down. Not overly ugly but not perfect so I didn’t get the job. So much for television prophesy.
Soap Operas tell their audiences every day that the average person has a beautiful home even though they never seem to clean them. It is normal to go to “The Country Club or The Diner or to a Gala Event” every night for dinner and see all of their other friends having dinner there too. Every night when they all go to “these places or events” everyone will have on the latest fashions, hair all in place and purse to match. The guys wear suites, tuxedos and look dashing. Everyone seems to have all the money in the world and the only thing they may have to worry about is being kidnapped and taken to a deserted island by some nutcase doing a cameo appearance. Don’t’ worry though. There is food on that island too….and probably a bomb or something very serious like that.
On some shows, whatever is needed simply appears or is notoriously and successfully stolen from someone else. The show tells us they are stealing from the bad guys,,,,, but who are the bad guys anyway? These days it is hard to tell. With the majority of the population getting up at the butt crack of dawn to go to jobs that are difficult, stressful and most likely seldom rewarding as they should be. We are using the money we are earning to just live, eat and keep a roof over our heads while we are watching the fortunate on these television shows setting a standard for the regular everyday person.
What is the he!! is going on with the people who produce these shows?!?!?
Do the infamous “They” NOT know what is going on in the REAL world?
Or do “they” not really care and continue to attempt to stimulate our imagination and keep us entertained while we are working our butts off?
I’d like to inform the “Theys” of the producing world that they are creating an entire generation of young people who think they do not have to finish ANYTHING!!! Let alone high school. The kids in high school on the shows wear the best clothes, don’t’ seem to flunk exams and even have their own little clubs to hang at. This makes it look easy and it is not. The kids get discouraged and quit - because they can. Now they can not find a job let alone aspire to some career.
BUT!
This same young uninformed generation wants all of the things they see on the soaps and television programs. The people on the soaps seem to have careers but don’t go to work. Some own their own successful businesses. Most don’t work and still seem to have mucho money. Still yet, in some shows there are cool cops looking for their girlfriend, mom or newborn child who has been kidnapped and taken to that dang island that keeps popping up.
I know there is such a thing as an imagination and dreams and wishing for and about things that are seen on television. I do not aim to infer that dreams, wishes and imagination are bad things and that an occasional star can’t be plucked from the sky and good things happen for people. What I AM getting at is that by the generation I am I am speaking of and the general public seeing this pabulum on television it IMPLIES that that IS the NORM!!! ARG!!!
That is NOT the norm.
Look Hollywood, New York and wherever else these programs are being produced, filmed and directed,,,,we need some reality out here.
No, REAL reality.
I have run out of space but will continue this series of articles with constructive suggestions.
Meanwhile, I am helping a young family member get his GED, find any sort of job, and then I have to fix the ceiling fan in the kitchen.
Don’t’ worry. It should be easy.
I have coconut shells, some wire and extra crashed airplane parts like the shows on TV.
