The way they show you poor people get emotional and anxious over potentially winning or losing money that sometimes literally could mean LIFE to them. The way we casually show them on T.V as slaves of a cruel and nonsensical game whose rules are stupid, unfair and biased against them.
The way people can even somehow enjoy watching real life humans being ridiculed by an asshole in a suit that earns more money than any "player" could ever dream of having.
It's predatory, disgusting and a way of creating and weaponizing class contempt in the most passive of ways. Fuck Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
T.V is merely a way to sell our available brain time to advertisers. You don't need to read 1984 or Animal Farm or whatever anti communist text written by a snitch to see dystopia. Just push the button on the big screen in your living room and watch as thousands of brands try to convince you their product is the absolute way while utterly failing at accurately depicting actual humans. Because capitalism is everything but human.
The Right:
Look at these leftist, all they do is say "US BAD"
Baby leftist:
Well, not everything the US does is bad.
Seasoned leftist:
US BAD
"TV gameshows are designed to make you feel better about the random, useless facts that are all you have left of your education"
The same goes 100% for things like the jeremy kyle show (which might be analogous to jerry springer or doctor phil in the US? they basically take people from trailer parks and council houses and "help" them by settling their domestic disputes and doing paternity tests etc. All of which, off course, needs to be dramatised for tv.)
I remember these shows would make me feel genuinely queasy and anxious when I was little, kind of the same way kids at school made me feel, and I had no idea why. And on goes the show, entirely fuelled by members of the lumpenproletariat, every joke (made out of the possible destruction of these people's lives and families btw) clearly being enhanced by their tracksuits or their accents that sounded just like mine. I realise, retrospectively, that they were flagrantly making fun of us for our economic conditions, and that was apparently just fine for nationally aired daytime entertainment.
I'm neither from the U.S or the U.K but I have no problem imagining what kind of show you're referring to. Fuck that shit dedicated to make idiots feel better about themselves.
For real, the Jeremy Kyle show is fucked up, it's an open secret that they'll try to ply contestants with drugs/alcohol behind the scenes, goad them into bitching about each other and try to ensure they don't get enough sleep to try and cause more drama, it's repugnant.
Cut the cord over 5 years ago, never looked back. That thing is a fucking void for the mind.
Started reading books again, watching political videos on youtube, feels great to be actively choosing to engage with informational material again. Checking MSM news sites becomes a stranger and stranger experience once you aren't stuck in the void. The absurdity of it all becomes obvious. Started with small things like; why are there so many sports and entertainment "news" thats not real news. Now it's like, this is all bullshit and distractions, they're pushing lie x and silencing event y.
Jeopardy is kind of good tho because its mostly harmless cerebral shit, you hardly ever lose money without knowing the risks yourself, and there is hardly any random elements to the whole show outside of those risks. BUT it is very bourgeois in that your average Joe isnt going to be able to compete.
At some point, we're gonna reach a point where we have TV shows of people playing actual Survivor. And carnage death matches that make the UFC look tame.
I mean thats how human society used to do it, it was freak shows and blood sports. I just find it disgusting how there was and still kind of is a type of show that basically is a freak show but tries to woke itself mostly on TLC. Like then there are shows like My 600 Pound Life which is a lot more raw in its approach to people with disabilities and just looks down on them.
How many years away do you think we are from just a straight up "The Running Man" show being made?
I feel this way any time a(n internet) personality, politician, or celebrity offers up money to charity under some stipulation. If they release their transcript, if they 1v1 me in counterstrike, etc. Those worthy causes need the money more than they ever will, but if you win at counterstrike you just keep the money? It's always a very uncomfortable situation for me to offer up (more) money to a charity that needs it under a condition.
Oh my god. I was watching a prank show last night where DJ Pauly D helps some lady help another lady prank her daughter by pretending to buy her a car and then destroying it in front of her. I didn’t see the ending but I’m assuming they didn’t give her a car in the end, just public humiliation.
I've seen clips of one of these where every single person they bring on is a gig-worker, and it just reminds me that the best thing this country can do for the people in it is to fucking die and let crapitalism lose it's biggest champion and attack dog.
