Creativity is overrated.
I was quite disturbed by what I saw on Channel 8, Friday 8PM. It's a show about how teenagers should go broach the topic of boy girl relations.
I didn't watch the whole thing, no I'm perfectly sane and I don't need to be taught how to breathe, but the preview was bad enough. I think it's scary that they're trying to teach these impressionable teenagers (the show's target audience) how to express themselves.
If whatever is reflected in television were to be religiously followed, all the atas dining places would be filled with guys doing the cliche one-knee kneel while thrusting out a diamond ring to propose to his girlfriend of 3 years, and life would be very predictable in the sense that if you're the girlfriend of 3 years and your boyfriend suddenly asks you out to an atas dining place, you can expect him to pop the question when the lights are suddenly made dim and music cut.
BORING. Life would be so predictable, and the girlfriend could choose from a list of responses prepared for such an occasion in her handbag, because she cannot think on her feet and thus cannot deviate from the standard responses to a proposal.
Because of television, creativity is not celebrated nor given due recognition. In fact, being creative is seen as being flippant.
My friend's friend's boyfriend proposed to my friend's friend at MacDonalds, and was promptly rejected because she thought he was joking.
Decades of reinforcement is forcing us into this pathetic hole of social inhibitions, so much that the usual confession of love (in the form of rape) in days long gone is now illegal. I can only imagine how much more censored we would be in the future, and how much more we'd censor ourselves, and I think I'd remain weird by not conforming, I think I'd remain weird by being as spontaneous as I want to be, I think I won't change much, but somehow, being different
doesn't get me laid =\
-- 9/11/2011 03:04:00 PM
