But apparently the networks disagree because they keep making more and more reality shows. I personally think Jersey Shore is the worst. To be honest, the reality tv craze makes me sick. It makes me sick to think that instead of coming home and watching an intelligent, well done show, with heart like “House” people are choosing to watch these shows that I swear are deteriorating their brain cells. It is just lunacy, there is no other way to describe it.
Twenge states, “To many older people, it’s funny. But too many younger people the main consumers of the reality shows on, say, MTV it shapes their views of the world” (pg 7). Narcissism is shown often, and without hesitation on reality TV younger viewers are being conditioned by the depiction of narcissism. Slowly, the excess amount of narcissism seems normal. For instance, on “America’s Next Top Model” young viewers wish to be thin, tall, and overall a model, but go about it in the wrong ways.
Television shows like the cartoon “Static Shock” taught its young viewers about things like peer pressure and gangs. While shows like the “Jersey shore” and “Teen Mom” create stereotypes and bias towards the people the supposedly represent. “…will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take refuge in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him. ?” (Socrates 1) This quote is basically saying that people are afraid to go against the mold and be like everyone else and sacrifice their beliefs and quiet the voice than to
As an actor, he feels that his audience should see things for how they really are, versus how the directors, screenwriters want the audience to portray them. Michael continually stands up for what he believes. However, this is how he got his bad reputation thus no one wanting to hire him. The interpretation from the movie was that Michael was brought up in a culture of valuing the rights, needs and goals of individuals. This is what moved Michael into being controlling and only see rolls from his
They aren't concerned about the issues, just the most views. "All of us in commercial television are confronted by a difficult choice that commercialism imposes. Do we deliberately aim for the lowest common denominator, thereby assuring ourselves of the largest possible audience but producing nothing but cotton candy for the mind, or do we tackle the difficult subjects as creatively as we can, knowing that we may lose much of the mass audience?" (source F) TV producers know that their audience isn't going to watch a boring debate, so they take out the important issues to get the highest rating. This is just another example of how TV has had a negative impact on Presidential elections.
That is where the person either thinks that they already look like someone on TV or they believe they don’t need to. Deep down on some level they are envious and it is not their fault. They have been programmed since young that they are supposed to look a certain way because of what they have seen in movies. Women are supposed to be skinny with perfect bodies and the men are supposed to be chiseled and muscular, and that’s not how everyone is. This is the biggest type of persuasion and the most dangerous, the reason I say this because not only do people judge themselves on how they look but they judge everyone else.
I personally believe that America is in a state of moral decline. Rather than rewarding those who choose to live their lives with a sense of justice and morals, the media glamorizes depreciative choices such as smoking, alcohol and general unjust behavior. This subsequently leads those who chose more conservative lifestyles to feel ostracized. More often that not, when a life of refrain from drugs, sex and partying is portrayed in media, it is in a context of the mundane even going so far as to proclaim that people who choose this lifestyle have no lives. The media definitely has a direct correlation to what is socially acceptable in society.
Most of the citizen listen to the governments idea if equality because either they agree with the idea of absolute equality or because they fear the government and they don’t want to have to face the consequences of rebelling against the governments harsh and oppressive ideologies. Equality may be achieved in the most literal form of the word, but it is achieved at the cost of freedom. Freedom is no longer in their society because they do not have the freedom to think any more, a prime example would be the “mental handicap radio” (464) that is places in George’s ear in order to distract him from his own thoughts. In Harrison Bergeron the television is used in order to essentially brain wash the citizens and to instill fear into them as well. The importance of the television is seen through out the short story by having the entire narrative taking place with both the main characters, Hazel and George, being in front of the television the whole time.
Soma is a way to keep a stable social atmosphere because by causing these hallucinations, people are distracted and drawn away from seeing the truth of what world reality they are living in which is miserable and controlled which would make any person miserable. The high the soma creates is like any other drug in society today and is not real but people get addicted to it because it is an escape so this happiness people think they are experiencing is fake and meaningless. Soma makes it seem like reality can’t bring happiness because it only brings hate, anger and sadness. People find themselves getting involved in an illusion because they believe it is better than what real life can offer which is really sad so even when they think they are happy they are still defeated by being sad because they are turning to drugs to make them happy which give them fake
As such, it is not a truly scientific explanation for the attraction of celebrity. Some behaviours exist today simply because they have not been selected out by natural selection. The assumption that all behaviours once brought survival advantages is disputed by many people. Social psychological explanations focus on the importance of low self-esteem, and there is considerable evidence to suggest this is an important role in the development of parasocial relationships. The social psychological approach by Maltby (2001) argues that people attach themselves to celebrities and form parasocial relationships with them because of deficits in their own lives or relationships.