Turn on your TV and randomly go through 3 or 4 non-news, non-music channels. You can surely get someone sobbing. From mega-serials to reality shows, from movies to contests, everywhere people are crying. For what? Yesterday I was watching a purely luck-based game-show. A contestant had come along with 4+ family members. The reason they came is to tell all their personal/economic problems and cry for the camera.
In game/talent shows where the money is not theirs, they cry like losing hard earned money. When someone says you are not dancing well or singing well, then it is the norms to cry for the camera. I read in news some months back that a girl got paralyzed as she can't cope with the comments of a dance competition judge.
To take it to the next level, in some shows, the judges start to cry. Stupid... If they are emotional while judging, then who can trust their judgment? What is going wrong? Can't we handle situations better? Is winning in a TV show or getting a lump-sum out of luck is what we are born for? Why the media is selling emotions and fear over knowledge and joy?
I think this is due to people are evolving away from reality. As we all live in controlled environments where even menial things like temperature, lighting and safety factors remain almost constant regardless of what is happening outside, we are made to believe that all these vanities are true and we need them more than anything. Children grow-up learning the names of animals and plants shown in Discovery channel. But they don't know the insects/plants/birds/animals common in their region.
A 1st standard kid knows about kangaroo than household sparrow. We worry about carbon-emission or swine flu than a poor boy in next street. A house-wife readily cries for a serial character but refuse to take care of her mother-in-law. How many of us watch through the windows (not the one Bill Gates sells) or sit in the balcony more time than watching TV? Unless we close the "virtual window"(TV) and open our real windows to our neighbors and surroundings, soon we will evolve to some other species than the so called "Humans".
In game/talent shows where the money is not theirs, they cry like losing hard earned money. When someone says you are not dancing well or singing well, then it is the norms to cry for the camera. I read in news some months back that a girl got paralyzed as she can't cope with the comments of a dance competition judge.
To take it to the next level, in some shows, the judges start to cry. Stupid... If they are emotional while judging, then who can trust their judgment? What is going wrong? Can't we handle situations better? Is winning in a TV show or getting a lump-sum out of luck is what we are born for? Why the media is selling emotions and fear over knowledge and joy?
I think this is due to people are evolving away from reality. As we all live in controlled environments where even menial things like temperature, lighting and safety factors remain almost constant regardless of what is happening outside, we are made to believe that all these vanities are true and we need them more than anything. Children grow-up learning the names of animals and plants shown in Discovery channel. But they don't know the insects/plants/birds/animals common in their region.
A 1st standard kid knows about kangaroo than household sparrow. We worry about carbon-emission or swine flu than a poor boy in next street. A house-wife readily cries for a serial character but refuse to take care of her mother-in-law. How many of us watch through the windows (not the one Bill Gates sells) or sit in the balcony more time than watching TV? Unless we close the "virtual window"(TV) and open our real windows to our neighbors and surroundings, soon we will evolve to some other species than the so called "Humans".
