Reports are coming out of India that there are street protests against Big Brother. The Indian Government has complained. The prime minister and the Chancellor have had to answer questions about Big brother. Questions have been asked in parliament, and OFCOM has been inundated with complaints all about a TV programme. What is going on? Has society started valuing stupidity, the vacuous, and the tedious above stuff that actually matters? Please if any one wants to discuss BB go somewhere else I have brain and I like to exercise it. Is this the day the stupid finally took over the world?
2007-01-17 00:23:37 · 17 answers · asked by Corneilius 7 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
V I dont watch it, but I watch the news and listen to the radiio. I read a newspaper and I use Yahoo Questions. there is ability to ignore this drivel
2007-01-17 00:37:57 · update #1
Agreed Neil. The inmates have truly taken over the asylum (no pun intended). There are FAR more pressing concerns in todays topsy-turvy world than some moronic reality show. I do feel that C4 have an "obligation" to properly control their broadcasts, but theres no such thing as bad publicity, especially if your show has been performing miserably in the ratings (which incidentally shot up by over 1 MILLION yesterday)...................................... I wonder.......................
2007-01-17 00:31:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe BB matters to some people. So let them watch it if they want to. I just wish it was not there on UK TV.
Someone doing a psychology degree must find it a must for case studies.
Well said Will H! If it had been the boot other other foot no one would have batted an eye lid. Anyway if those that go on BB cannot stand the heat they must get out of the kitchen. It's a place for worms to sqirm all over each other.
2007-01-17 00:36:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Civilisation and culture died long ago, Big Brother is just a way for people to distract themselves from how boring and pointless their lives really are. The fact that the government and that is making such a fuss is probably to distract people from all the violence and terrible things that go on in the rest of the world. Woe betide people actually noticing what's really happening in the world
2007-01-17 00:34:32 · answer #3 · answered by Princess Paradox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
It is also the end of free speach as we know it.
Unfortunately in this world any person who is white who makes any slight criticsm of any race other than their own is percieved as a racist. However it seems that you cannot be racist to a white person. So anyone of a different colour skin to white is deemed as having an opinion when criticising a white person.
I'm not here to discuss BB, becuase frankly i hate the show, but i have a strong opinion of people playing the 'racism card' when someone is just saying something stupid about another race, of which they do not have any understanding.
2007-01-17 00:34:48 · answer #4 · answered by Wil H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, you could look at it that way and I'm guessing lots of people do, but i think the fact that people are so outraged by the treatment of a fellow human that they complain and protest, could be interpreted as the day we finely tell big brother and its fame seeking non celebs to get lost and we replace the empty vain vacuum big brother illustrates with general human dignity and respect for other people.
2007-01-17 02:17:45 · answer #5 · answered by alex w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As Fry said on Futurama, "Clever stuff makes people feel stupid, and unexpected stuff makes them feel scared. That's why TV gives them exactly what they want." I hate BB and CBB too but it seems to be everywhere, everyone is talking about it at work and maybe C4 think 'any publicity is good publicity'. Turn off the TV and read a good book is my advice.
2007-01-17 00:34:40 · answer #6 · answered by igorolman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think of this question is paranoid in any respect. All empires have failed. u.s. has lost it fairly is way with the two party device, the two certainly one of that have shown a push aside for the form that ought to have the human beings rallying interior the streets. besides the undeniable fact that, we take a seat idly by using as our large country is being destroyed from interior (returned, as has happened with all empires). this might perhaps be the top of the yank "superpower" era/empire and the beginning up of a sparkling one in China. It keeps to be to be seen. 20-30 years feels like a some distance way off...besides the undeniable fact that it fairly is not that some distance to be trustworthy. solid question.
2016-10-31 08:37:01 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that Big Brother is a freak show and numbs the mind of the viewer as well as degrading the weirdo participants. I don't watch it, what I read in the papers is more than enough. It is the Roman 'Bread and Circuses' of our times and demeans all those involved.
2007-01-17 02:31:18 · answer #8 · answered by Beau Brummell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a point it is a sick programme and i hope this incident will make Channel 4 scrap it. But it has exposed some so called celebs as a bunch of dumb racists.
2007-01-17 00:30:23 · answer #9 · answered by jack lewis 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reality TV is no more the end of civilization than any other fad. Believe or not, there are millions that do not even watch reality TV. In fact, there are millions that do not even watch TV.
2007-01-17 00:29:26 · answer #10 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋