Is our so-called civilisation going down the path where Gladiators will soon fight to the death live on tv, or people are seen commiting suicide? Will individuals sell to the media their dying moments from some incurable cancer to be shown live on tv so we can weep for them safe in the knowledge that our macabre desire to see them die will help fund that person's orphaned childrens' education??
What do you think?
Is death the ultimate 'thrill' that shall eventually nolonger be a public taboo?
Will we in the west follow the likes of Al Gezira (sorry if spelt wrong) that show tv footage of hostages being 'wasted'?
Are we, as human beings, civilised - or are we all merely wolves and sheep pretending to be something more than the most evil and cunning animal on this planet?
Drewski: I don't think so as I for one don't watch tv and am sure many others don't. Therefore, it would have no appeal for people like me and many others.
Good!
Score so far:
sheep = one
wolves = nil
Hang on a sec!
Sheep follow the crowd, and Drewski isn't a sheep.......... so, Drewski, representing sanity, gets 100% of the vote so far!
I'd have liked to have seen Bush versus Saddam O'Shane thingy person - you know the Irish despot who ruled Iraq - fight to the death live on tv, instead of ordering tens of thousands to be killed by their inability to chill out and do that male Greek dancing thingy together!
I'd have liked to have seen Bush versus Saddam O'Shane thingy person - you know the Irish despot who ruled Iraq - fight to the death live on tv, instead of ordering tens of thousands to be killed by their inability to chill out and do that male Greek dancing thingy together!
sheep = 2 wolves = 1
Now I get it. The one for the many. It this turning into a religious thread?
NAKEDMUDPEOPLE: Now I get it. The one for the many. It this turning into a religious thread?
I hope not............... I haven't got my mercurial religious hat on right now; I was just thinking of the tv ratings and the advertising revenue and who would win - sorry!
I was thinking what weapon GWB would have used - he'd probably wave a small plastic knife (like they give you these days on aeroplanes) while instructing a stealth bomber to drop a 'bunker buster' on Saddam.
Saddam, being slightly more intelligent, would probably get one of his doubles to fight on his behalf while he dressed up in drag and watched from the sidelines playing nervously with his moustache.
Drewski: Not so fast Rusty. If I'm going to be winning then I'm going to have to get on board here. What channel would I tune to?
Let me think this one over.
It needs to have mass appeal.
Something simple?
'Death TV'?
'Death Watch'?
'MILTV'? (Mother-In-Law TV)
'Wasted' tv?
Oh there's one already, isn't there? Fox News!
Yes indeedy - the evil Richard Murdoch flexes the tentacles of his media empire as part of his cunning plan to rule the world...... once ha owns ALL the media in ALL the world he can make up all the news and then we are all doomed - right?
Just because we have some sembelance of higher thought does not mean that humans are civilised, no matter how hard it fed to us and how deep we delude ourselves to the fact that once the veneer is stripped away we are anything more than base animals. All that we do to and accomplish through our meaningless existence all boils down to survival and continuation of the species and nothing more, despite all the gloss and meaning we force ourselves to believe as to prevent our large but relatively underdeveloped brains from exploding
Just because we have some sembelance of higher thought does not mean that humans are civilised, no matter how hard it fed to us and how deep we delude ourselves to the fact that once the veneer is stripped away we are anything more than base animals. All that we do to and accomplish through our meaningless existence all boils down to survival and continuation of the species and nothing more, despite all the gloss and meaning we force ourselves to believe as to prevent our large but relatively underdeveloped brains from exploding
Ok, but until reality tv brings us our daily dose of live tv killing we agree that naked mud wrestling is an acceptable substitute!
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Is our so-called civilisation going down the path where Gladiators will soon fight to the death live on tv, or people are seen commiting suicide? Will individuals sell to the media their dying moments from some incurable cancer to be shown live on tv so we can weep for them safe in the knowledge that our macabre desire to see them die will help fund that person's orphaned childrens' education??
What do you think?
Is death the ultimate 'thrill' that shall eventually nolonger be a public taboo?
Will we in the west follow the likes of Al Gezira (sorry if spelt wrong) that show tv footage of hostages being 'wasted'?
Are we, as human beings, civilised - or are we all merely wolves and sheep pretending to be something more than the most evil and cunning animal on this planet?
What do YOU think?