Intelligence has great importance within a society. Societies that increase
their population to a greater future. The more people listen to and learn
from intelligent sources, the greater chance of positive outcomes in the
future as they move on to bigger and better things.
Then there's reality TV.
Reality TV to me is a perfect example of de-evolution. We have brought
ourselves to an outstanding place in technology, with numerous
possibilities ahead of us to try and enhance life as we know it. So I find
it is simply irresponsible to spend this time that we could be using to
enhance our livelihoods watching other people do stupid things on a show
that the TV producers try to pass off as 'real'. It is not that I have a
problem with watching things on TV; people can share really original and
creative ideas through movies or Talk Shows, inspiring others through their
works. But there is really nothing stimulating or inspirational about
seeing Snookie hookup with guy #125, or watching a mother spray tan her
bawling four year old daughter.
To increase intelligence in society, positive values and ideas must be
circulating around to give people a good moral base. Modern Reality TV
takes away from that completely, reflecting terrible values and showing
entertainment that is the opposite of stimulating. There are three examples
of shows that do this, and honestly just make society a more frustrating
and morally saddening place to live.
The first example is the infamous show known as Jersey Shore.
Having never
seen a Jersey Shore episode, I decided to subject myself to one for the sole
purpose of this assignment. 2 minutes and 21 seconds later, I feel I really
do have all I need to explain why this show is not a good show to subject
society to. I found myself laughing at their trivial problems, such as
everybody crying and giving such dramatic emotion for Snookie getting a
warning by police after parading around the streets drunk. It's exactly that
kind of behavior that makes Jersey Shore one of the last shows that should
turn into a phenomenon. Its morals are to get drunk every night, get a spray
tan during the day, and get a perfect body so you can hook up with countless
amounts of girls and have meaningless sex again and again.
The job of trying to teach children about how to respect women and be fine
upstanding citizens that schools and parents happen to be stuck with is
difficult enough, but is just unfair expectations to hold to those powers
when kids are being fed these morals every time they turn on the TV. Jersey
Shore is not just annoying to hear about, its stupidity is bringing its
audience down with it, making it a harder job for those who enjoy quality
entertainment to try and advance society
A second example of a terrible reality TV show is the show Toddlers and Tiaras.
This show doesn’t feature terrible examples for teenagers; instead, it goes right to showing terrible things HAPPENING to children. The premise of the show is that they take little 3-5 year old girls and try to get them to win beauty pageants by making them look ‘the best they can be’. But these poor toddlers are dressed up in a tad more than tiaras, their crazed mothers going so far as to give them spray tans and put them on crash diets. “Oh, but she likes it!” declares the mother of a child who is bawling for the spray tan to stop. This show causes mothers to take away their kids toys and trade them for dresses and excessive amounts of makeup, showing them that beauty is all that really matters in life. This show causes mothers to look past the well being of their daughters and solely at pleasing the judges, making their little girls miserable in the process.
This show doesn’t feature terrible examples for teenagers; instead, it goes right to showing terrible things HAPPENING to children. The premise of the show is that they take little 3-5 year old girls and try to get them to win beauty pageants by making them look ‘the best they can be’. But these poor toddlers are dressed up in a tad more than tiaras, their crazed mothers going so far as to give them spray tans and put them on crash diets. “Oh, but she likes it!” declares the mother of a child who is bawling for the spray tan to stop. This show causes mothers to take away their kids toys and trade them for dresses and excessive amounts of makeup, showing them that beauty is all that really matters in life. This show causes mothers to look past the well being of their daughters and solely at pleasing the judges, making their little girls miserable in the process.
The final show that I consider an embarrassment to society is one that only survived its first season: Bridalplasty.
I consider the concept of this show so ridiculous I don’t even see how it made it past its first episode. Basically, there are 12 wife-to-be’s who are competing in various challenges. Whoever wins each challenge gets any item of plastic surgery they would like done, and the overall winner gets the wedding of their dreams and enough plastic surgery to re-haul her whole unhappy body. Here’s the twist: the husbands don’t even know what their future wife is going to look like until the day of the wedding. This show takes women, feeds into their thoughts of not being good enough the way they are, and causes their husbands to basically marry a stranger when it’s all said and done, likely ruining marriages and people’s lives in the process.
I consider the concept of this show so ridiculous I don’t even see how it made it past its first episode. Basically, there are 12 wife-to-be’s who are competing in various challenges. Whoever wins each challenge gets any item of plastic surgery they would like done, and the overall winner gets the wedding of their dreams and enough plastic surgery to re-haul her whole unhappy body. Here’s the twist: the husbands don’t even know what their future wife is going to look like until the day of the wedding. This show takes women, feeds into their thoughts of not being good enough the way they are, and causes their husbands to basically marry a stranger when it’s all said and done, likely ruining marriages and people’s lives in the process.
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