Originally posted by Mailman
Good rant there Denny.
What really gets me about this country is that most of the civilised world that also had tv taxes have abolished them.
I saw last week the beeb was bleating about being political pawn...but hey...you accept the Queens shillings you better be prepared to do as she tells you. IF the beeb wants to do as it pleases then lets scrap the tv tax and let them fight it out in a real commercial world!
Second...when watching the news all I really want is the news! Not emotional crap added by a news reporter only interested in some rubbish end of year media award!
Mailman
What really gets me about this country is that most of the civilised world that also had tv taxes have abolished them.
I saw last week the beeb was bleating about being political pawn...but hey...you accept the Queens shillings you better be prepared to do as she tells you. IF the beeb wants to do as it pleases then lets scrap the tv tax and let them fight it out in a real commercial world!
Second...when watching the news all I really want is the news! Not emotional crap added by a news reporter only interested in some rubbish end of year media award!
Mailman
The scariest thing for me these days, is that every aspect of a person's life seems to be fair game for entertainment and commericial gain. I've heard the expression 'all the world's a stage' but I can't say I like it much.
No one has any dignity anymore, it seems to me. Everyone wear's their feelings and experiences on their shirtsleeves and there seems to be no limit to the depths some people will plunder in order to get ahead socially or professionally or to gain celebrity status. It seems that unless you're a celebrity figure you're virtually worthless. Funny that considering.....
This problem kicked off in the 80s when the era of psychobabble, mainly imported from America, started to catch on as mainstream reading material for the masses. Soon everyone was buying '10 ways to increase your wealth, happiness and relationships' by Dr Anne Tovie-Smith (I made that up) or 'How to increase your confidence and build wealth' and so on. Everyone went ona a self-training mission to counter criticism, no matter how justified, and soon everyone caught on that a well-deflected remark was better currency than listening to justified criticism in the first place. Now critics are known as ranters and moaners not people who are expressing what is wrong with the world. Apparently, it is the critic who has the problem not the criticised. Of course, we live in perfect world.....
Now everyone is told they are entitled to feel good about themselves, whether they deserve to or not, and self esteem is prized above all other characteristics that should really give rise to it: such as bravery, talent, hard work, personal courage, high standards of behaviour and so on. Apparently, nowadays, irrespective of how lazy, inept and stupid a person is, no-one should ever feel bad about themselves and to see that feeling bad is a barometer for improving behaviour and attitude and so on. So instead of becoming harder working, cleverer and so on they're encouraged to go 'search their inner child' by attending some psychobabble bootcamp, stick some audio tape on or read some other mindless import from America in order to relieve themselves of the the bad feelings they probably deserve to have in the first place. It's all about ridding the symptoms not tackling the causes and it's been an effective way for the second rate to get ahead without doing very much to deserve it. Now first rate people are trailing behind unless they are very lucky indeed because the reigns of power have been snatched from under them.
No wonder materialistic kids have everything but are still unhappy and 10 year olds are scouring shopping centres for babies and then murdering them.
Yes, I'm in one of my 'put the world to rights' moods today. :
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