Death, The Reality, Not The Show ©

Ah fuck
You know, just when you think the entertainment industry can’t surprise you any more than they have already they come up with something new to entertain us with, if you want to call it that.

I remember as a kid having three channels and one was French from Quebec.
You never saw the Pertis in bed together.
Leave it to Beaver wasn’t about eating pussy.
The Brady’s were not the Bunkers and the Jefferson’s were not in the hood no more.

Red Skelton made us laugh Saturday nights and Ed Sullivan entertained us on Sundays.
For some alternative entertainment there was always The Liberace Show or Tab Hunter if you wanted to fall asleep.

For action we had Bonanza, Gun Smoke, Mannix, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch came later with Star Trek….. and other cutting edge shows which knocked down sexual and racial barriers
Sports was hockey and football
Educational shows would include The Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom or something by National Geographic.

Today we have thousands of channels catering to a multitude of fetishes for the public to absorb.
The two biggest things are the news which now brings you right to the scene of the crime while it’s happening or maybe the battlefield where you can watch the enemy being slaughtered and if you’re lucky, even a loved one before he gets he head blown off in the next frame and reality shows.

Reality shows like Survivor which exploded on the scene a number of years ago that spawned a slew of other shows that range from running around the world to finding a spouse for a million dollars.
There are bi-sexual love shows where the only winner is the host who is expecting to get her stamp licked no matter who wins.

I am for freedom of speech and support the right for these shows to be allowed to be aired but I have to ask myself when is it enough.
I hate censorship with a passion.
I honestly believe that we should know what’s cool and what’s not.
Ok, Survivor.
In many ways it’s cool except for the BS head games.
In reality, you work together to make it until your all saved.

Then they started being stupid by pitting tribes of various races against each other.
That’s when I really never wanted to see it again and didn’t.
I for one don’t watch reality TV.
I have seen a spattering of episodes of this and that, mostly The Amazing Race.
Survivor is BS as far as I am concerned.
If they really want to see them survive, drop them in the jungle and fly off for six months then come back and see how many of them are left alive without the luxury of saying I quit send me home.

Now they have come up with something new but it’s not called Survivor.

I don’t know, are we being tested to see how much we are willing to put up with or are they exploiting our weaknesses to get away with some fucken stupid shit.
Maybe both.

I watch a lot of action programs with heaps of killing in them.
Blood by the barrel and little oriental guys jumping 100 feet in the air slicing people into sushi.
Yet they can’t win and Olympic medal for the high jump.
It’s all make believe and I know it.
We all do.
It’s entertainment, ACTION.

There is one show out there now and one being started soon.
In the UK there is a Big Brother star Jade Goody who is filming her life and battle with cervical cancer.
I for one applaud her courage and her accomplishments amidst all her health issues but recently I read where she plans on filming all the way to her death and that’s live.
I’ll leave that there for now and come back to it later.

CBS along with Jeff Probst of Survivor are putting out a new show called, “Live like you were dieing”.
This show will take us around with people who are dieing so we can see them go through the agony of leaving this world, forever.
Yes, we will see them suffer and struggle until the end when they stop kicking, except for the occasional twitch that is and die.

That’s entertainment folks.

“Live like you were dieing”?
Do they have a fucken choice you dumb fuck.
Live life like the living until you can’t no more.
I don’t want to see people dieing on TV like that.
What, there’s not enough carnage in the world right now so you have to expand your morbid desire for ratings.
Have we become that insensitive that we will watch this crap?
It’s not enough you’re torn apart when you loose a loved one you have to watch it happening to someone else on TV.

How long before they put it out on DVD.
Season one of “Live Like You Were Dieing” with extra features not seen before with a commentary from the poor bastard who will not see it.
Is this what you want your kids to watch when you’re not around?

Jade Goody I can understand that she wants to show that you can live life while dieing.
We all start dieing from the day we are born physically and this woman is showing how she is living mentally and spiritually but she wants to show us too much.

Some things should be left alone.
When we bridge make believe to reality we take a knife and slice away a little more of the innocence we have left inside us.
In some ways we cheapen life it’s self.

Why not a show about people surviving dieing?
Does it always have to be about dieing that raises the ratings?

CBS and Probst are nothing but Necromongers; vampires sucking what little life people have left for money and ratings.
I for one am disgusted with the idea.
There will be people out there suffering from the same illnesses those being filmed have who would watch how they will die when it’s their turn.
I believe this takes the pleasure out of living what life there is left to live by showing a person how they will deteriorate in time.
It will show their families how their loved ones will suffer.
Instead of investing all the money it will cost to make this show, they should use it for research and I will be willing watch an hour of commercials in that time slot instead for the season.
I most definitely won’t be watching you show a person suffer and die.

Jade Goody, I’m sorry she is sick and I am sorry she is dieing but I won’t watch her die on live TV.
There is nothing educational about dieing, just sadness for those left behind and sadness for a person so full of life having it cut short.

I wonder what’s next.
Maybe pay per view executions.

What we do and watch as a society makes us who we are as a whole to the rest of the universe.
The Roman colloseum has come to your living rooms and the lions are slaughtering the weak for your viewing pleasure.

These are just my opinions for what they’re worth.

Have a nice weekend

Walker