..well, you get the idea.
I don't even know how to turn on my TV as there is now something called...
Input 1 or 2 or 3 and I have no idea what to do. There I was trying to celebrate with my friend when my eye kept being pulled to the set on the wall. There were some chefs on the screen, all standing with their hands clasped behind their backs, at attention, as a panel of people (who are they?
) told them mostly bad things about, I assume, their food. I knew they weren't nice supportive comments as the camera was close on the chefs' faces and they looked scared and sad. They were then marched in and out as a group until one woman was asked to leave.
She was crying, packing up her knives. It made me so sad and sick to watch. Why was I drawn to this?
I didn't want her to lose...
did I? Do I? I don't even know her.
Why would I wish her harm? I understand there are many of these shows now. All "elimination"-based and faux reality.
I understand there is a good side, a jubilant winner getting their shot at fame and fortunes, but the bulk of the watching, I gather, is some communal elimination where the audience gets a hand in the stone-throwing It begs the question of why we feel the need to watch this. Are we all so unhappy in our own lives we need the fix of watching another human go into the gladiator ring and come out a bloody, eviscerated mess? What does Russell Crowe scream in -- "Are you not entertained"?
I am not entertained and neither was that red-faced, tear-stained woman who was told she wasn't good enough. I was raised by parents who said there were only winners and losers. That the winners were good and the losers bad.
The winners hard working and for the most part thin and attractive and the losers slovenly and unkempt. I think the world is filled with people. People who try and dream and risk and stumble.
Heavy, light, rich and poor and all who just seek to be seen and heard. Not judged and eliminated. When did life become Boot Camp?
I understand that a screaming drill sergeant and the subsequent training prepares a young soldier as they go into battle but we have turned ..well, you get the idea.
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