I really just can’t watch these types of program, it’s quite literally bad for my blood pressure.
Real Housewives, Towie, Chelsea, the Kardashians, Van Der Pumps, Below Deck… oh god.
I’m a die hard Lib Dem centrist but watching these programs and seeing these total fucking mouth-breathing idiots become super wealthy millionaires spending their money on all sorts of superfluous bullshit when there’s ridiculous income inequality in society and budget cuts to all of our essential public sector departments, it stresses me out so much I feel like I’m getting an ulcer. I can literally feel my heart racing, blood pressure spiking, and it makes me want to run for office on a Marxist-Leninist platform and make everyone wear grey jumpsuits and earn £500 a month and just eat the rich.
These programs, to me, highlight EVERYTHING that is wrong with our society today. EVERYTHING. And I don’t just means the fucking morons getting rewarded for being morons and being irresponsible with the money and influence they get from acting like morons, but also the people that watch it. Having to watch awful people just be awful to feel better about yourself and get this weird moral sense of superiority is pretty lame. And sad too! Surely as a society and individuals we have more going for us to feel good about than just watching this shite? “Haha look at me, I’m not a total cunt that treats women pieces of shit! What a wanker, I’m so much better than him” or “Hahaha look at those stupid bitches, they don’t even know what Brexit or the EU is! Never mind the fact they probably can a low education, low income social background where society and the educational system failed them as children, I know what Brexit is so I’m a much better person continues to furiously wank my ego to a pathetic, dribbling orgasm”
And if we really don’t have anything else to make us feel better about ourselves than these types of shitty programs, we need to take a long hard look at ourselves and see where it is we’re going wrong.
No one actually cares about these people’s lives or stories, they just care about how horrible they are to each. It’s all extremely negative and I don’t like it. Gaining so much pleasure from something so cancerous as others nastiness is not the right direction for our society.
There’s basically two groups of people that watch these programs: the idiots that idolise and want to be these people, and then the people who get gratification and pleasure and stroke their own ego from judging others which is pretty unpleasant in itself.
Then there’s the whole thing about the fact that there are people, from all sectors and industries, white collar or blue collar, who will work twice as hard as these reality star fucks but will never see a fraction of the kind of money they make. Society at large is constantly complaining about income inequality and how unfair budget cuts are and how hard it is to save and how our pensions are fucked and stagnant wage growth and yet they go and fucking fund the lifestyle of these reality tv stars who literally do nothing but pose for a camera. It’s not even like they’re actors who have to go on set or location and act in a challenging role or a footballer who has to train for hours a day to become a top athlete, these fucking people just go on holidays all the time paid for by the viewing public and the only cost is having a camera crew filming you for a couple hours a day.
We’re all fucked.
