Follow-up on Post#1

I read a friend's post about the PBB issue and, although he did not state that it is in response to my first post, as I read through it, I knew that he was a bit offended of what I posted in my previous entry and he prepared a counter-statement for every point that I tried making.

Sure, I get the point of things being pointless.. because it's fun that way. I catch myself often doing pointless things. I would just like to clarify some things that he may have taken in a different angle than I would've liked it presented.

Call me narrow-minded but I tend to associate people that watch those kind of shows as shallow (or even stupid) people that doesn't see the things that make these shows run.

I wanted to present that it is my personal opinion in considering these people shallow. I did not say however that I consider all of them stupid. It's an OR statement. I understand that this friend of mine hates being called stupid because he is, in fact, one of the smarter persons in my class.
Besides, what difference can my opinion do to the rest of the world? Just because I think that you are such does not mean that you really are. Everything's subjective, my friend.

I do find my fault however, of seeing them as generally shallow or stupid instead of just in one area. I should've said easy to be entertained (which is more or less equivalent to shallow) but stupid was just overkill. My mistake there.

In response with this incident, I added a word of caution over at my sidebar. I suggest that you guys avoid to take things like this too personally. I warned a lot of my initial readers that this blog would be controversial. I failed, perhaps, in letting the rest of you know.

Greed feeds

Do you enjoy watching the "Pera or Bayong" part of an afternoon show, WoWoWee (if I remember correctly)? How about "Deal or No Deal"? What does these two have in common?

To give you an idea, "pera or bayong" is pretty much like "deal or no deal" wherein you can win a mystery amount or a known amount which increases or falls as your chances increases or decreases accordingly. I can't help to admire the ingeniously designed concept but I don't like the manipulating of a person's principles. They use the concept of greed to manipulate, or at the least heavily influence, the person's decisions through money. Money corrupts. Even the greatest of men throw away their principles for money. Greed feeds the capitalist. In this case, greed creates suspense.

What if not just take the money and walk away? I'll do that.. it's because, at the end of the day, these people walk away, thinking of what they missed out on.. instead on what they have. I saw this woman on the "Pera or Bayong" show where she stood by her choice (bayong) until the money reached a whopping 200k.. and then she took the money.. only to find out that she had a 1 (completing a 1M) under that last box. She looked disappointed. I wonder why? It's because she thought she lost something very big but if you think about it.. not everyone gets the chance in receiving 200k Php for free. She's looking at the empty part of the glass that she missed out. If that was me, I'd walk away happy. I just got the money to establish my shop.

Pointless

PBB.

I find such programs to be pointless and is just aimed towards money.
It's really sickening to see people acting someone who they're not just because they're on camera. People that do things to attract attention, even to the point of getting negative attention. It just makes me throw up.
It makes me wonder seeing persons actually watching them and more so of people that actually vote. Call me narrow-minded but I tend to associate people that watch those kind of shows as shallow (or even stupid) people that doesn't see the things that make these shows run.

In my opinion, they do not help in your everyday life because things that you see there are just happening in real life. You need not see them on your television.

Just my two cents.

Edit: 07.14 some grammatical errors and improved over-all entry comprehension