Everybody comes across them in their lives at some point. They're all easy to get a hold of. Why? I believe it's because of the way our society is structured. Why do you think you can stream or torrent almost anything you could possibly want? Why do you think porn is the number one object of internet traffic? Why do you think Pot, cocaine and heroin are "illegal", yet anyone is able to get their hands on them?
Well, I think these are all things that have been determined as necessary to keep our society as dumbed down as it seems. If you don't believe that we've been dumbed down, take a look at the most recent comedies, masterpieces such as Superbad, semi-pro or Zack and Miri make a porno. All funny movies, to be sure, but all comedies that appeal to the simplest, most crude laugh-inducing topics avaiable to the human creative conscience. It used to be that timely swearing and nearly-revolting insults thrown left and right didn't constitute wit. Sure, we can say that shows such as Monty Python's Flying Circus is nothing but quick, absurd comedy designed in the same fashion as the Judd Apatow legacy, but they appeal to such a variety of subject matter, not just sex and a grandmother's smelly genitals.
And this is halting our creative juices right in their tracks. If this is now what we regard as funny, then evolutionarily, we will continue this way. Will we never again see the likes of Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles?
TV itself is a funny thing. It seems that all we know about comes from the TV, something that synthesizes emotions for us and causes us to feel. Rather than feeling from a direct experience of some kind, we are looking to an experience forged by an ammassed crew led by a select few writers and directors who represent their own bias, opinions and desires. Looking, with such frequency, to other people to show us how events should transpire, can only extract our own personalities to be substituted by what we feel is right, as determined by the screen. The fact that the TV only stimulates two senses also unnerves me. Often, after getting so drawn into a film I will realize that I've sunk into my comfortable couch, not moving, not smelling, just watching and listening. And we devote so much time to TV and films. We regard them as so essential that my friends have always expressed wonder as to how I don't have cable at my house. But, essentially, the TV makes us feel emotions that every human wants to experience. So why should we leave the couch?
But now that doesn't matter 'cause I have internet. And I can torrent. And Stream. Almost anything. And the reason I think that this hasn't been shut down, regardless of the massive losses incurred by the film studios, the people that hold power in this world, the select elite who have so much money that they basically control all the stocks in the world, don't want to lose their power. So this is how I see it. They want to keep us dumbed down. To prevent any real ingenious progress that may potentially happen if we get up, get out and create something rather than experience something created by someone else.
So now that I've rambled for a while, I'm going to spare your attention span and save the rest for later.
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