The last thing we need is another folly and making a big goof out of everyone of us.
Did you ever wonder why on earth Filipinos are very inclined to appreciate tasteless entertainment and its growing affinity with what I find to be cheap, repugnant and with lame story plots “tele seryes”?
I don’t mean any offense to those who are enjoying soap operas, it just that, I hope they realize that these form of entertainments are counter productive, it shows the malignant case of our amusement outlets and our unrelenting support for the entrepreneurial abilities of these giant TV stations that exploits and distort the values of the Filipino people.
Aside from false hopes that these stations are trying to instill to its viewers, it degenerates the last remaining Filipino value on hard work. Being impoverished, poor and be deficient in the luxuries of life do not justify us to be content with what is being promoted by these broadcasting giants that “luck” and life is actually a form of texting back to win a meager prize.
The stories are utterly detached from realities and its acute alteration of hope and human malevolence in the fantaserye creates a counter-productive psyche among the very young audience. Growing up with super heroes had not become very harmful but watching fantaserye “only in the Philippines” style have obviously created a huge blunder with the idea of Filipino life and its reality.
Aside from the sheer “confusion” I get why we enjoy the horribly dubbed foreign soap operas that usually resulted into extreme admiration of its non-Tagalog neither English speaking actors/actress by the Filipino masses, we become very much engrossed with anticipating the show time of our favorite soap operas.
It’s like the world stop during these showtime, people are glued to their TV sets while, if you will try to analyze, the time being spent watching these programs, which if you’d ask me are not just stupid but “jologs” are detrimental to the pursuit of higher standards in value formation and tasteful form of entertainment.
Then here is the gambling side of it where you have to send your SMS answers for the not just “lame” but also dim-witted questions that only shows how simple minded the Filipino masses are.
We always wonder why we get to be mocked, looked at condescendingly by other nations. Why don’t we look at what we watch, what we patronize. If you will just look closely, you will find that what we enjoy watching are actually trampling the Filipino people as corrupt, unintelligent and obtuse minded race.
It makes us look silly. It harbors the idea that the quickest escape from hardship of life being “squatter” and impoverished masses would be to win the jackpot prize of the TV game show. Do you have an idea how many people are shamefully battling sweat and body odors in order to join or enter the studio of their favorite game show? Some are even staying the night in front of the gates, sleeping like wild dogs and vagrants, devoid of any trace of self-respect.
How much dignity do you still want to remain in us? Not much I guess.
By the look of it, it seems that many Filipinos are more than willing to try their luck - influenced by the fantasy that these teleseryes have cultivated among our minds - instead of breaking the habit of wishful thinking and hauling extra effort to earn cash the hard way.
Filipino people are quick to rush to the street and cry foul for the endless “pahirap” (sufferings) they get from the government while in fact, there is not much being done to strive harder and perform more productive endeavors instead of drooling over fantaserye, lame soap operas and impossible game shows.
I think when Dr. J. Rizal bailed us out for being “indolent”, it was because he thought there would be no suckers that would fool us being duplicitous and even made us think that lying is still a good deed, Rizal would have not thought of the Filipinos worshipping Chinese actors slash singers or that the Filipinos will make themselves fool by dancing stupid and lame “ridiculous” dance that even adults enjoy doing. No, he would never thought of it.
If only Rizal knew how the Filipinos have become idiotic for wasting valuable time watching soap operas that promotes hatred, adultery and mock the remaining intelligent sense of our diminutive brains, he would have conceded that we are indeed an indolent people.
The last thing we need is another folly and making a big goof out of everyone of us.
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