WHY THE TV SHOW BIG BROTHER IS EVIL

As I indicated in my last post, I hate Big Brother. No wait hate isn’t strong enough. I despise it more than any other television program ever produced. Why you may ask?

Currently I’m reading a book called Bear V Shark by Chris Bachelder, a satire based on people’s need for a competitive spectacle, no matter how moronic it is (like Big Brother). In the book the spectacle is a fight between a bear and a shark. The family who the book revolves around wins tickets to see the fight live because of an essay their son wrote on it. The essay says:

"In today’s society there is a lot of bad news. Just for an example of this is tornadoes, assassinations, tainted food and killer bees. Other examples are pollution, bad roads, heroin, teen pregnancy and rabies. Most problems aren’t anyone’s fault, most of them (like killer bees) are natural and can’t be controlled by human destiny.

It can be difficult to be happy with all this bad news around. For instance, people are grumpy and many of them commit suicide. Men tend to choose guns and women choose pills. I say choose life!

Bear V. Shark allows people to forget about their own problems and the troubles in the world and just be happy. Bear v. Shark gives people a reason to be excited about their day. Instead of sad about gang violence or a collapsing infrastructure people can be upbeat because they are happy. Their minds are on something else. Say, which side are you on? Are you for the bear of the shark? And what about those fins anyway?

In closing, my gardener is Dutch and he doesn’t have a culture. But America is great because it has a culture and Bear v. Shark helps us have a culture."

This sums up the role of Big Brother.

The reality is that the problems we, the broader world, face are man made (even killer bees, they were introduced into South America by people) and can be fixed. But this would cost money, money which government and business doesn’t want to spend. As a result people should be angry.

So what does government and business do? They create crap like Big Brother to keep people occupied so that their minds are focused on the competitive spectacle of Big Brother. Their anger is focused on who they don’t want to win on the show.

This is instead of thinking about the world’s problems and being angry with the government and business, and demanding they do something about it. Big Brother is a form of brainwashing. It even has commercial breaks where the companies you should be angry at try to sell you even more crap you don’t need that will just fuck the world up even more.

And it promotes greed: what are the contestants playing for, one million dollars. And the winner gets it not for doing something that is of some benefit (no matter how small) to society. No they get it based on the popularity of the personality assigned to them by the production company. Because you see, Big Brother isn’t "reality" television, it is in fact scripted, another part of the brainwashing.

Sadly shit like Big Brother has become the dominant "culture" for the majority of people in the Western world, when the reality is it should be reviled for the brain-washing crap that it is.

That is why I despise Big Brother; because it helps maintain the world’s current injustices.

Oh, by the way, I am a bear man.