Good grief! Last night I was goofing off and decided to click around the various channels on Sky tv and came across Pamela Anderson's "roast" which involved Courtney Love and a bunch of people who are presumably "celebrities" who seemed to have nothing in common but an obsession about their genitalia, anus, breasts, fellatio and the like.
I watched it for a while. They live only in tv land for people, and I doubt that they reflect actual life for many people at all, because proportionately, they were a small part of the vista across the channels but I grant you that combined into one bundle, the tv scene is not representative of VVV.
I clicked across other channels and there was one outright about sex [I forget which channel it was] but it was pure voyeuristic exhibition of actual [or very closely simulated] sex, plus lots of prancing around nudity. It was purportedly of a "documentary" nature. Yeah right.
While I'm aware that my digestive system does all sorts of gurgling things including excretion and that delightful little children arrive by way of genitals getting together, an obsession about those functions is limiting. I suppose they think they are liberated, uninhibited or something, rather than simply ridiculous. Oh yes, there was the drugs aspect too, with Courtney either loaded up, quite mad, or a good actor.
But as I look out the window, and wander down the street, I don't see much of it so I guess it's really just attention seeking, getting some kind of tv rating, and selling some advertising or maybe tv time to excited viewers as escapist madness.
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