Most people in the western world owns a tv and we also spend a lot of time infront of it watching all these tv-shows about other people's lives. You, as well as I, seem to enjoy watching other people do stupid things on tv. We've got Britain's got talent, X-Factor, So you think you can dance and an endless list of talent shows and what's even worse is that these shows are usually made in many different countries but they still show all of them everywhere. This means that from time to time I can switch channel on the tv from watching American Idol to Swedish Idol and later watch Britain's got talent.
I don't watch these shows to find talent or appriciate the good singers. I watch it simply because I find it entertaining when someone really terrible shows up and try to get his 15 minutes of fame. Don't blame me, I bet many of you do the same. There is something about making fun of people not understanding that they are (excuse me for my language) crap at what they do. I don't know why but I think it has to do with us feeling better about ourselves not being out there making a fool of ourselves but there must me something more than that. It might be a teeny tiny bit of hope inside us, wishing that this simple, normal looking or even ugly person will prove the world wrong about them and actually reach some kind of success and maybe give ourselves a hope that we can become something great too and get out of our normal distress.
Maybe that is why we enjoy all these tv-shows about normal people living their glamorous life. I don't believe we are watching it because we find it interesting, educating or even that entertaining really but it gives us a possibility to be a part of a world we are far from living in. We all wish we were a bit more famous, good looking, smarter and richer and these tv-shows make us believe we have a chance to be it. However, I think that if we had a chance to be a part of this world we would still not be it because what we all know but choose to ignore is that the life style we see is just the good parts of a life that of course is filled with the same problem we have in a normal world.
One thing I don't understand though is why we watch tv-shows such as Big Brother, Survivor and Paradise Hotel. These tv-shows do not show glamorous life neither people trying to show off their (lack of) talent. I often wonder what we find interesting with simple, usually less intellegent, people living their normal life on tv. Yes, they are put in a different situation and there are some competition involved but most of the time we get to see their discussions and conversations most of us have everyday. Maybe we think this will give us advice how to live our lives.
Even though that is my speculation about why we enjoy watching these tv-shows I really hope this is not the case. I will continue to look for the answer what people find entertaining with watching this. I wish our lives didn't surround around these tv-shows as much as it do. Even if we can find some kind of comfort by watching them people take after these people's behaviour and try to become something we shouldn't be. People become famous without actually achieving something and we there after look up to them and try to be them. Just look at the headlines and count them. I bet you can find at least twice as many head lines about famous people from these kind of tv-shows than headlines about people that actually achieved something to reach stardom.
I'm not judging the people watching these tv-shows, I do it too but I am warning people that it can be dangerous. Don't let it decide what you do in your life. Don't try to be them because you will never have a life that the tv shows us. That is what tv is. A lie about how our lives look like. It's not telling the truth. Even if you think the cameras record everything and you have the possibilty to see it you will never know what actually goes on behind closed doors so don't believe it and what's most important; don't take after it.
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