Media makes our lives boring!
-
was sitting around with my friends one day and we were examining why all of us had no lives. was it the army? was it the lack of a lover? was it lack of charm on our part therefore leading to the lack of a bevy of girls following us around?
then suddenly...someone said... i think tv shows and movies UN-glorify our lives. haha think about it
we all watch movies... and most of it begins with this plain normal dude. then a phone rings and soon he's bending spoons and dodging bullets.
what do you guys think? could it be possible that the media, in the midst of playin out our fantasies, its also telling us *nyah nyah nyah nyah nyaaah... u'll never lead this type of life* -
Hey,as the saying goes..."If there is a will,there is a way".....about your bending spoons,everyone can do that..just use two hands
The best thing about the media is they put down everyone inclduing the goverment
Basically the media is only to give our mind something to do and its is up to us to make our life intresting -
our lives are boring mostly cos we allow it to be.
-
I'm bored.
-
me 2.Originally posted by Parka: I'm bored.
-
Think the internet too.....i seldom watch TV....but I m definitely hooked onto the internet..............cant live without it.....
-
Originally posted by Farmer Brown:
Have you been watching Matrix? I disagree.
[b]we all watch movies... and most of it begins with this plain normal dude. then a phone rings and soon he's bending spoons and dodging bullets.
what do you guys think? could it be possible that the media, in the midst of playin out our fantasies, its also telling us *nyah nyah nyah nyah nyaaah... u'll never lead this type of life*[/b] -
Yah especially all those channel 8 marathon series. Start of the series and i hear people crying / screaming lamenting how bad their lives are. Pheeew, life is already bad enough, and they must ruin people's day by screening soap operas. No wonder singaporeans are getting depressed lately.
-
heng i never watch themOriginally posted by CenturionMBT:Yah especially all those channel 8 marathon series. Start of the series and i hear people crying / screaming lamenting how bad their lives are. Pheeew, life is already bad enough, and they must ruin people's day by screening soap operas. No wonder singaporeans are getting depressed lately.
-
You can always go to Tioman for deep-sea scuba diving.
Or elsewhere for sky-diving.
That will make your life interesting.
-
Originally posted by Farmer Brown:was sitting around with my friends one day and we were examining why all of us had no lives. was it the army? was it the lack of a lover? was it lack of charm on our part therefore leading to the lack of a bevy of girls following us around?
then suddenly...someone said... i think tv shows and movies UN-glorify our lives. haha think about it
we all watch movies... and most of it begins with this plain normal dude. then a phone rings and soon he's bending spoons and dodging bullets.
what do you guys think? could it be possible that the media, in the midst of playin out our fantasies, its also telling us *nyah nyah nyah nyah nyaaah... u'll never lead this type of life* Ain't 'entertainment' for nothing...? -
Aaa... Talk about values of some 'programmes'?Originally posted by Lingos:Have you been watching Matrix? I disagree. Now... When reality merges with imagination and we're all getting pretty confused just like in a Matrix system... Isn't that much more frightening? -
Hmm.. but more of less all forms of entertainment programs are a mixture of reality and imagination.Originally posted by Devil1976:Aaa... Talk about values of some 'programmes'? Now... When reality merges with imagination and we're all getting pretty confused just like in a Matrix system... Isn't that much more frightening?
I don't think it depresses us.. to a large extent, films/tv programs are made to give us hope, communicating that there is light at the end of the tunnel. -
That's the POINT...Originally posted by Lingos:Hmm.. but more of less all forms of entertainment programs are a mixture of reality and imagination.
I don't think it depresses us.. to a large extent, films/tv programs are made to give us hope, communicating that there is light at the end of the tunnel. -
Actually, where there's a will, there's relatives!Originally posted by StarPuppy:Hey,as the saying goes..."If there is a will,there is a way
Life is interesting enough as is - if you've got the need to let some fictional concoction dictate what's boring, it's a sure sign you need to get out and do more.
Even worse, society's gotten so sad that it now needs to get reality through a device whose name is a bad mix of Greek and Latin. -
Point of?Originally posted by Devil1976:That's the POINT... -
Yes... Media like many others things in life can give you 'hope / light at the end of tunnel'.... Not saying that it's always factual... But sometimes we're confused (without even ourselves realising it at times...)... And we could be led in all directions... You don't know where you'll end up... Only at the end of the tunnel (if you don't realise it sooner), would you know if it's the 'correct light'....Originally posted by Lingos:Point of? -
I really don't think that we base our lives on tv shows/movies/music (entertainment media). Besides indstructional shows, we really wouldn't follow their directions.
At the end of the day, there is an off button on your remote? And we have free will, if it is depressing i turn it off. -
it is whatever you want it to be..
if you let it take over your life and make it boring, if you let it dehumanise you, then, it is what you allowed it to do...
time to take personal responsibility...
things like that only happen if you allow it to happen.. and if you allow it, who is to blame?
knives kill... but do we blame the knife or do we blame the murderer? -
If only it is as simple as that?Originally posted by Lingos:I really don't think that we base our lives on tv shows/movies/music (entertainment media). Besides indstructional shows, we really wouldn't follow their directions.
At the end of the day, there is an off button on your remote? And we have free will, if it is depressing i turn it off.
1st thing... Not everybody thinks the same as you and me... You'll be surprised how some people can take things so seriously to such extent....
2nd thing... Humans are 'intelligent creatures'... We LEARN... Consciously.... Sub-consciously... Picking up the tiniest of all things from time to time... How do you think you think? Sometimes you look at an advertisement and you'll tell yourself... "This food looks good...?" Sometimes you see this guy on the TV and you go... "This guy looks GREAT!'
End of the day.... Well... Humans are INTERESTING CREATURES.... -
Well most boring people I speak to usually just talk about the television shows they watch. They go on and on about their Channel 8 serials and who did what with whom blah blah blah. I find it boring because it seems their entire life revolves around these shows, right now they are all talking about American Idol, it used to be Surivor lolz. Some of them just watch Anime Cartoons.
It seems these people don't have lives because they are too passive. All they are happy to do is sit and watch, and let their lives be just observing what scriptwriters put on the screen. I rarely recieve any new ideas or proposals from such people, simply put they don't talk to me (which is cool now
i used to be pissed), they only like to talk to their own sort of people who watch the same stuff. Haha thus it becomes a cycle of passivitiy when passive people only associate with other people equally as passive.
When i watch anything, i think about how it can be improved in quality or directing. Most importantly, i think about how I can twist what I watch into something else to make people laugh, in other words, i make parodies. I am thus not passive in that sense.
Then again why are people's lives un-glorified? Because they watch too much media stuff, why do they watch too much media stuff? Because they are passive, now, WHY ARE THEY PASSIVE? Well its the culture and strict rigid system here I suppose. THE average person's schedule is too jam packed, so much so he must resort to the cheapest and easiest form of distress, i.e. Television and media, for he won't have time to read books and ponder about philosphy, or he wont have time to walk through the gardens or the beaches... being passive in the 1st place, he wont even attempt to think differently or parody what he watches. -
Thank you all for replyin...
Ling Ling,
yea tv and cinema and even MTV gives us hope of a better life. but for some of us, we aspire too greatly to chase dreams that we should never even begin chasing. media depicts (although not always very accurately) how the rich famous popular and succesful live their lives. be it fictitious characters or real live examples, we all somehow envy them and we try to chase those dreams. some suceed but the majority (to be fair) only marginally succeed... for those that fail very badly.. they become casted out from the very societies that they tried to fit in to.
from another angle, our lives could have been pretty interesting. reading a book or spending family time could be interesting. picking up culinery skills or gardening or sewing or just plain fixing the broken fan could be exciting. but i bet many of you, whilst reading the abovesaid must have scoffed at it and said.."wah...damn loser lor" BUT i beg to differ. (no offense to those who actually take joy in the above said due to INTEREST)
media portrays thru dramas or adventure series, heck, even REALITY series how boring the abovesaid is.... -
Not if your life's much more interesting than the TV dramas..?Originally posted by Farmer Brown:media portrays thru dramas or adventure series, heck, even REALITY series how boring the abovesaid is....
Hmm... That reminds of an INTERESTING movie...? BIG FISH... -
how often are our lives more interesting then TV....unless you watch only infomercials...i doubt our lives can be so exciting. haha.. i think if they actually follow me around and play it un cut...(except the toilet scenes of course, who would wanna see anyway???) i bet the whole lot of you will rather sit down and watch the sunpage IDD commercials over and over again...hahaha
-
As usual, people can decide whether or not they want to get bored.
There's a choice.
The media is there, but one can choose not to be affected. One can always find some other things to do.
Besides, the term "boring" is quite ambiguous. What's boring? What's the comparison basis or yardstick?