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Kazius
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Israel1456 Posts
April 20 2012 16:00 GMT
#1
Please, stop. If you are in any way remotely responsible for reality TV, please stop.

Julie Chen, Simon Cowell, Donald Trump, Gordon Ramsey, all of you; Please, I'm begging you, stop.

I don't hate you guys personally. I'm sure that you do what you feel is right. Nobody thinks they are evil. It's not even fashionable to call people evil. I mean, most people are just stupid, or have to do what they have to do, are controlled by outside forces, whatever. But not you. Now, I don't blame you. Given the ability to run the shows like you, I'd take it in no time flat. It's better for me, just as it is better for you. So I don't begrudge you, or hate you. I begrudgingly respect you for your accomplishments. So, when I say the following, it is not out of hate, or spite, or anything like that. With that in mind though...

You are the filth of the world, and I don't know how you can sleep at night, you evil monstrosities. You are everything that is bad about humanity. You are a symptom of stupid, you are making the stupid part of the world happy with being stupid, and you make money off of the formula to appeal to stupid. And you make it contagious. You package it so well, produce loads of garbage and call it content until people believe there's something there, but there isn't. It's packaged so well that even people that are obviously not stupid get sucked in. Because everyone has that part of him that is stupid. Please, stop. Please, please, PLEASE, for the sake of humanity, stop hurting us.

It's just shit, coated with caramel, sprinkles, whipped cream, and a cherry on top, and you are force-feeding the world. Stop destroying everything that is beautiful about choice by replacing it with infectious garbage. People eat so much of your shit that they are becoming sick with everything. You are replacing reality with Reality™, you are replacing thought with consumption, and by now, there is no redemption for you. You take things like eating, singing, dancing, things we all love, and filter it, put it through makeup, marketing, advertising, using a slew of psychological studies to package it in a way that we'll like it without noticing that it's just shit. You make eating shit, you make singing shit, you make everything you touch shit. And it will never be enough. You want us to get used to it. You want us to be able to digest only shit.

There is no salvation for you people. You are everything that is wrong with modern society. Please, stop. For the love of all that is good in the world.

Please.

Just stop.

***
Friendship is like peeing yourself. Anyone can see it, but only you get that warm feeling.
oGoZenob
Profile Joined December 2011
France1503 Posts
April 20 2012 16:07 GMT
#2
That's why my TV is only used for my xbox ^^
I like starcraft
TemujinGK
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States483 Posts
April 20 2012 16:14 GMT
#3
How about you just let other people do what they want. You don't like reality tv? don't watch it.

Calling people 'filth' for prospering using skills they have is childish and naive.
"Pikachu and Protoss are both yellow, Coincidence?" ~apexMorroW
Turo
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada333 Posts
April 20 2012 16:18 GMT
#4
if you watch reality tv, even if it's to rip on it, you are the market they're aiming for. stop giving them any money and you'll see it go away. but most likely it won't. it fits too perfectly with humans natural tendencies to ever really go away.
PassionFruit
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
294 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-20 16:29:03
April 20 2012 16:28 GMT
#5
It sells. Just a byproduct of capitalism. There's a load of good things to do out there besides watching reality television. But if people aren't really motivated enough to do otherwise, you can't really blame the producers. The producers are just playing the game. At least if you're gonna do a proper rant, don't hate the player, hate the game.
DKR
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom622 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-20 17:14:44
April 20 2012 17:14 GMT
#6
Don't watch it.
"1 base. Cheese man." - MKP. "[MVP] is not stylistic, his style is winning, which is the style you want to have." - Artosis
Hulavuta
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States1252 Posts
April 20 2012 17:23 GMT
#7
wtf misleading title,
Done with Team Liquid for a while. Don't expect to find me here.
Mstring
Profile Joined September 2011
Australia510 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-20 17:26:42
April 20 2012 17:23 GMT
#8
"It sells" sounds great until it's the only thing you can buy.
Leth0
Profile Joined February 2012
856 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-20 17:40:26
April 20 2012 17:39 GMT
#9
The "reality tv series" craze has gotten so bad that I am actually baffled at human stupidity....i mean "pregnant teenagers" or w/e the shit MTV has done.....All the facepalms of the world combined are not enough.
hypercube
Profile Joined April 2010
Hungary2735 Posts
April 20 2012 17:52 GMT
#10
On April 21 2012 02:23 Mstring wrote:
"It sells" sounds great until it's the only thing you can buy.


No one forces you to watch TV. Seriously, when some successful person is asked: "How do you have time for all that?" the most common answer is: "I don't watch TV."

TV is a huge time sink, it's boring and ads are designed to make you unhappy and self-conscious. Unless there's something you specifically want to see there's really no reason to watch any TV at all.
"Sending people in rockets to other planets is a waste of money better spent on sending rockets into people on this planet."
Kazius
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Israel1456 Posts
April 20 2012 18:11 GMT
#11
On April 21 2012 02:14 DKR wrote:
Don't watch it.

I don't. But I can't ignore it.

Reality TV is culture poison, it seeps down to everywhere. I never watched the Kardashians, Jersey Shore, My Sweet Sixteen, and others. But you can't escape it. People talk about it, best friend's wife thinks Big Brother is the greatest thing, The Situation appears as a guest on shows that I sometimes watch, and that song by whats her name from that show is everywhere, and so on. It is just as abusive, abrasive and agonizing as commercials; it is a formula to get into as many people's heads as possible, applied to entertainment. It is overproduced unoriginal pop, but with visual stimulus to enhance the impact. It is choosing to buy shit you don't need to satisfy the opinions of people you don't know.

It is lack of content pushing it's way into things with recycled content, that in turn influence original content. It is a professional and refined formula aimed to replace creativity for profit. It is Brave New World today. It is entertainment designed for not thinking. It is a symptom of the worst of modern society. It's not a first world problem. It is the first world problem.
Friendship is like peeing yourself. Anyone can see it, but only you get that warm feeling.
Mstring
Profile Joined September 2011
Australia510 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-20 18:54:39
April 20 2012 18:51 GMT
#12
On April 21 2012 02:52 hypercube wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2012 02:23 Mstring wrote:
"It sells" sounds great until it's the only thing you can buy.


No one forces you to watch TV. Seriously, when some successful person is asked: "How do you have time for all that?" the most common answer is: "I don't watch TV."

TV is a huge time sink, it's boring and ads are designed to make you unhappy and self-conscious. Unless there's something you specifically want to see there's really no reason to watch any TV at all.


I don't disagree; I haven't watched programmed TV at home for nearly 5 years.

I was speaking to the short-sightedness of 'vote with your feet' type comments. When you're well aware that you're in the vast minority, "don't watch it", as a strategy to elicit change, is not only futile, but insane.
PassionFruit
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
294 Posts
April 20 2012 19:18 GMT
#13
On April 21 2012 03:51 Mstring wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2012 02:52 hypercube wrote:
On April 21 2012 02:23 Mstring wrote:
"It sells" sounds great until it's the only thing you can buy.


No one forces you to watch TV. Seriously, when some successful person is asked: "How do you have time for all that?" the most common answer is: "I don't watch TV."

TV is a huge time sink, it's boring and ads are designed to make you unhappy and self-conscious. Unless there's something you specifically want to see there's really no reason to watch any TV at all.


I don't disagree; I haven't watched programmed TV at home for nearly 5 years.

I was speaking to the short-sightedness of 'vote with your feet' type comments. When you're well aware that you're in the vast minority, "don't watch it", as a strategy to elicit change, is not only futile, but insane.


I don't know if you're alluding to my comment, but my point wasn't about eliciting change. It's to suggest the possibility of looking at the problem from a different perspective. A capitalistic system will naturally just cater to whatever the market demands, and the producers simply sell whatever sells the best. When you accept an economic system as liberal as laissez faire capitalism, things like this will happen. So the point of my "it sells" post is more about acceptance. Telling producers to change a winning formula is just as insane as asking the market to change its tastes.

But people understandably want to envision a more ideal state of affairs. Thus the OP's rant.
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