To make my point louder, I haven't come across a single reality / performance show that has third-party checks / audit for the amount of sms - votes that come in from public.. Get a grip guys!!! They can as well manipulate anything, based on what is convenient and more glamorous / TRP catching to show...However, it doesn't disturb me, since it solves the general purpose mentioned above - hypothetic power to the powerless.
A more disturbing fact is that the participants actually believe in these shows - parents groom & force their children to participate. We are trashing the sacrosanct relation of guru-shishya and deciding our skillset based on laypersons' perception. Now, the word of our teachers doesn't suffice, we need to prove ourselves by monkeying around on the stage!!! Please remind me how many of these people last in the public accredited careers for more than a couple of years?
There was something like Sa Re Ga Ma, where industry stalwarts would come to judge people. That was good for exposure & talent search. Today, there are too many shows & hence, unrestricted opportunities to participate in any one of these drills and see oneself on TV. While the judges vary from good to absolutely pathetic, they hardly have any power over the outcome. The public vote is given an equal rating over the word of an expert. I'm not saying that the expert cannot be wrong, but the probability of an expert going wrong over a layperson going wrong is much much lower. & public opinion is always clearly expressed in the way the person is able to deliver in later life as a professional, buy listening / seeing him or her...
Why do we need public endorsement for what we do? Are we really an insecure generation? Do we not believe in ourselves enough to just go ahead & do what we think right, instead of getting public opinion beforehand?? That, I think, is the crucial difference between the achievers & the followers....
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well said indeed. great post.
and i like how uve dug deeper into the idea, about needing public endorsement.
i have often wondered about this myself. i suppose it would be easier to talk about this as people either being lone wolves or sheep. the sheep stay in a group, are boring, play safe etc etc-- and wolf is quite the opposite.
but then i wonder if the analogy is accurate. sometimes i think the lone wolf gets lonesome.
what is it about us that makes us crave our fellow man's approval? hmm.. (if at all he does crave for it,) do u think the answer would be somewhere in LILA?
all in all, performance reality shows do suck ass. and i don't care what anyone says,,,, they do not have the credibility to judge a performer....
well im not sure a wolf ever feels lonely, but yes man definitely does...
however, i would put a large distance between company (as against lonliness) & public approval.. i have met many people who like company, but always do what they feel is right; and others - who are loners, but need acceptance at every step...
i guess the idea is that of self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-respect - as against receiving all the above from society...
as far as performance reality shows go - capitalism at its darkest!!!
A sad import from Uncle Sam, and an even sadder implementation; The level of performance and its appraisal simply plummets from one abyss to the other...
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