So Big Brother is well under way and it started on my birthday a few weeks ago, what wonderful timing! I must admit in the very early years I did enjoy Big Brother but I was young when it started so I didn’t fully understand it. Now however I find it repulsive. I really don’t understand how people find it entertaining, the nerd in me can find psychological aspects to it, looking at behaviour patterns and the way in which social groups form and so on, but other than that what is the need for Big Brother?
This past week two people were removed for inappropriate behaviour. Does this not show what has become of a once lively and innocent enough programme? One quite clearly made threats of violence against people’s friends and family and the other spat in someone’s face for what I believe to be no real reason. He spat in someone’s face! That’s vile! It’s disgusting!
I would have slapped him into next week. How can you think it’s okay to spit in someone’s face. Someone who you’ve been living with for three weeks. Would you not sort of think actually no, that’s a horrible thing to do; aggresive as I may seem i can completely understand why people hit people. I’ve come close in the past myself to hitting people because some people have been so horrible and just got me so angry something else really does take over (I never have hit anybody, I’m saying I’ve wanted to or I’ve come close to). But I really can’t imagine something taking over and making you spit. That’s weird.
Big Brother used to be a gameshow. Plain and simple, a gameshow. But that isn’t what it’s become. It’s become a way of gaining fame for having no talent instead of completing tasks to win the prize money. It’s become an easy way to humiliate the nation by showing all other nations what an awful group of people we have in our society. Think about it, these people are representing us to people all over the world. Is this really what Channel 4 wants people to see as an example of the British population? I’m ashamed to say I’m from a society that has these kinds of people within it. It’s like bear-baiting. It’s become sick and twisted, a way of embarassing people in the most outlandish way imaginable and I don’t think it’s entertainment.
Do you?
