Sad but interesting. I don't know which is more sad though; The millions of viewers who dignify it or the people so desperate to get on the show.
Well, it's on telly even in Czech republic, and I must say I find it really stupid!!! There are so stupid people.. just idiots without brain. But at the same time, here's a quite similar reality show, called "The desirables".. and there are much more interesting people, and it's just better at all. So to Big Brother: NO!
i hope they wont have BB next year..seriously, who can actually watch it? i did watch it the first time cos i thought it was quite interesting (and it was, nasty nick!) , but cmon, its been 6 years already, i dont think it constitutes entertainment anymore, just a way for desperate people to be "famous", and besides, whats the point, we already know what its all about, even if BB gets more evil each year, its the same repeated formula (people+house+two months+cameras=boring!) seriously, channel 4 should consider investing on other sort of programmes, reality TV is way past its sell by date. please no more!!!!
Oh... I read that one last week, but I wasn't sure if you ment Orwells BB or the reality show.. or both..? ..so I didn't reply that day. I will now.. But I'll try answer both options... a totalitarian tendency in society... it might be manifest as media power or militaristic power to sneak into our minds and bodies. It doesn't matter to them if they can turn us into braindead soldiers or braindead television viewers. What matter to them is how to passivate the masses - all the critics - all the art - all what's human - all that move - all freedom, and all of us. The more alienation - The more discipline - The more control - The more power - The less democracy - The less hope, freedom, dreams, giving thought crimes the finger, happiness, sorrow, and life. And then people die. Physical, mental, both. And then System win - World lose. If we're living in a society in which the majority of people think that "Big Brother" and similar braindead reality concepts are "good quality television", I must say that our societies are just as totalitarian as Orwells Oceania. The alarm bells were ringing almost two decades ago, but only few people cared. And those were prisoned, killed, or scorned. What the hell is going on right now? love and understanding, ) / ) (""") ) * ("" @@ ’_) ("") ("”") (’’) \/_( *)_( (_ */"" @@ (_) (_(*)_( ..)<, p.s. to sum it up: Big Brother and all other kinds of reality shows are symptoms of an superstructural crisis in the capitalist ideological reproduction of a rigid society, in which we're all living for producing to consumers, who consume to feed the producers who produce to consume.. etc... The neoliberalist dream is to make all people around the world to live as ants in one big dirty anthill...
it's stupid for me, and it breaks the life of the people who participate.In Bulgaria, one couple will divorce, and the people watch it like a soap opera
I do worry about the lives of people after they have been on Big Brother. They have all that attention and become famous for what? It can't be good for them, and it can't be good role model for young people....there was a survey of seven year olds recently in the UK, in which most of the children wanted to be famous, not a famous footballer or a famous artist , just famous, it's going to be a very strange kind of society if Big brother becomes the norm.
The limits are moving in an even further absurd direction all the time. It's okay if small children wanna be famous. It's important to let children dream, and not to build obstacles for their creative fantasies. But it's alarming when the desire of success overrule the desire of getting influence or to change something. If we're living in a society in which fame is mean and end at same time, emptied of any motive for why fame is desired, we're living in a very, very poor society. And all alarm bells should ring if the survey you mention is actually proving that children learn that depravation of spirit and vitality are societal circumstances that can't be changed... already in an age of seven..! =noose= p.s. All parents should rise up together and protest against those totalitarian tendencies, on behalf of their children and their future. The paradox is that parents are typically the segment who are most passivated in political issues. (Typically, yes, but definately not all of them. Many families cheat the system and raise up their kids in ways that the system don't expect, nor please. There are many cool parents). They're interpellated as consumers to take care of their household first of all, and since the household occupy all their time, there's no excess to live a social life and to change anything in society. That's why the politicians want all of us to live decent, to establish a family, and to have some children. Most families are simply living under circumstances, in which it's impossible to them to change anything. The kids demand too much money, time and energy. When the system or the government ask you to establish a core family, they're in fact asking you to establish a consumer unit. Easy to control and easy to discipline. They know where you are. They're having an eye on you. Big Brother is watching you... :-/
