Sunday TV
Sundays are the absolute worst day to watch TV (in my opinion). All they have on is infomercials, cultural shows, church, and sports. This is how Sunday TV has been for years; I usually have my shows that I watch (NBA games and American Greed), and I stick with them. But there are also a lot of programs for children with health issues, like programs for kids with cleft lip, or a Sick Kids hospital infomercial. Most of these infomercials are shot in third world countries, in Africa or Asia. This made me wonder; Africa is the most resourceful self-sufficient continent on the planet, but yet, it is arguably the most impoverish. And of course, I thought about corrupt politicians in certain countries, exploiting their resources with sucker deals. But I know everything on TV is not by chance; it’s there to work on your conscious and sub-conscious mind.
What’s the hidden message behind those infomercials? To be grateful for the life you have? Feel sorry for others and be down throughout your day? Or just give us your money, we’ll pay our payroll and split the rest with the children. I don’t know at this point. Later, I was watching CNBC, and I was watching “The Secret Lives of The Super Rich”. That gave a totally different message; they had billionaires’ competing for who can buy the biggest cruise ship (the winner’s boat was about the size of the new Dallas stadium). A lot of these billionaires have top of the line security guards, and one even built a safe house (to protect himself), in case the world ends. So, I was wondering what that message was. Should we praise the billionaires for their wealth? Should we aspire to be like them? Obviously, the billionaires are in a better situation than poor people in third world countries, but to the core, are they happier emotionally than the poor? I don’t know.
Besides having total financial freedom, all wealth does allow you to play poker with the wealth, you now have the privilege (capital) to spend with them; you’re worthy of socializing with them, and you can purchase their high-end products. I personally believe that people shouldn’t be praised for the item they own (but that’s just my opinion). We have around 7 billion people in this world. So, for extreme wealth, you need extreme disparity, for one man to be worth 10 billion dollars, at least 10 million people have to be poor to enable his wealth; that’s the only way it works. I think they should show two sides of the coin, just like they have show like the secret lives of the super rich; they should have poverty awareness shows. In those shows, people can tell their story, and their perspective on the world. That way, some people would be grateful for what they have, instead of focusing on what they can’t afford.