July 30, 2010
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It’s all but a show.
I think we as humans are eager to first-hand knowledge and first impressions. Like “Love at First Sight”, many of us make snap judgements about certain matters or issues the first time we are in touch with it. Instinctively we have the dire need to quickly classify, sort, and make sense out of these information, and we aren’t often very certain about it. Through time, we do learn to dissect and analyze the raw information we first receive, and gradually process them and eventually conclude them. The emotions that have spanned through encountering certain issues may have fluctuate dramatically, but they eventually settle down like the ocean.
The problem is, the first impression is indeed the strongest impression, and without precautions, we often leave very deep imprints in our mind about certain information, and as the most stubborn and egotistic beings in the entire Universe, once the impression is imprinted in our minds, it’s extremely difficult to change.
The prime example is the news.
I see many raw, unprocessed inforamation, particularly tabloids and garbage news on Taiwanese TV and it just gets on my nerve; in the world of (self-proclaimed) democracy such as Taiwan, media and magazines can talk, “suspect” and “assume” about certain people having affairs, or being gang-related, or drug-abused, and make great fuss over these issues and then proceed to release these “information” over at the news, newspaper or magazines and make big bucks.
And it saddens me to the core when you just know that a lot of people aren’t even realizing they are fed garbage-ass-diarrhea shit every single day, their minds are being polluted by money-making news channels that implement exciting information like “XXX is having affiars” “XXX’s dog died yesterday” “XXX restaurant is having a super tasty soup” and the people buy it, they continue to watch it, and I seriously doubt if any local Taiwanese people care to raise the question: “WHO THE FUCK CARES?”
While it’s sad to know that the Taiwanese people are fed shit everyday, it’s also critically important to wonder just what the high ranking Taiwanese government officials are doing everyday, or more conservatively, every Tuesday. Seriously, what are their daily lives like? It seems that a lot of the ministers or chief-operating-whatevers are basically devoting 80% of their working hours into dealing with the media – producing even more shit to feed the people.
I swear I see the Premier of Taiwan Dun-Yih Wu (吳敦義) on the news like every 2 hours, it really makes you wonder just what he’s been doing all day everyday, except for having press conferences about some assumptions or comments or opinions that some nobody from nowhere reporter have made, which may or may not affect the future of Taiwan. Type in his name on Google Image and you’ll get a list of these pictures, and they are precisely what you will see on the news EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
8:00 am “Yo whasssup the people of Taiwan, I just woke up and took a shit, it wasn’t a very good one tough, it split in the middle and splattered all over my toilet, I wish it was more solid and concrete. Fibers are overrated”
10:30 am “I just want the Taiwanese people to know that I have spent the last 2 hours and 30 minutes to write this sentence.”
1:00 pm “Each one of you is allowed.., no, REQUIRED to ask me 10 questions, you can ask me anything, and for each question you ask I will give ten different answers, hell fuck it, why not round it up and make it a hundred? We got nothing better to do right? and plus we gotta make sue the Taiwanese people to feel extra secured for the fact that I’m here to answer questions.”
3:00 pm “Now that I’m done with the 57th answer, next up…”
5:00 pm “You know what, I gotta get back to work now and prepare for tomorrow’s bullshit press conference.”Some people be complaining about how the show qualities of Taiwan are declining, I don’t see how that is possible, because the show business of Taiwan have already morphed media, news, entertainment, and infomercials all together into one entity, the quality no longer matters because the entire network is doing the same thing but only catering to different demographics. In all realness they just want to make money with the little commercials there remains in Taiwan, meanwhile further degenerate the minds of Taiwan so we can keep buying the things we don’t know why we want or need. I don’t blame them for doing what they’re doing, because let’s face it, we still watch it everyday and we love it.
Speaking of Taiwanese commercials, take a look at the following two videos and kindly sympathize for the Taiwanese commercial makers.
Cute right? I felt the same way the first time I saw it, unforturnately it is almost an exact duplication to British singer MIKA’s “Lollipop”. Check it out:
I understand that the Taiwanese car maker’s marketing department bought the rights for such duplications, and that it may have been the marketing department’s budget concern to not be able to hire professionals to create original materials, but at the very same time, I can’t help but feel sad that the entire Taiwan network is simply filled with unoriginal shows, implemented infomercials, and duplicated commercials. ARE WE THAT FUCKED UP!?
Think I’ve strayed away from the topic a little too much. My point is, I think we as humans take the first hand information way too seriously and we feel the need to “classfiy” the good and evil of people base on one or two little details we see about people, and even if we later find out that these information aren’t necessarily representative of such person or entity as a whole, deep down insdie we still base such quality and give inaccurate and unfair judgements about those said issues/persons/entities; I just think that we must learn to not trust the media that much and continue to learn more through experience and become independent and individual enough to evaluate true information and knowledge from bullshit garbages.
Anyways, I’m going to watch INCEPTION and then cop Starcraft 2 today, life is good and I’m happy.
Till next time.
