IF I HAD A HAMMER!

Relaxing at home on Saturday evening and watching by force the dreadful show on ITV about hiring for a stage version of Grease, I became overcome with hatred for the reality (sic) TV genre that increasingly we are impelled to endure.

(Is there no end to this? It now appears to govern and/or influence every aspect of our lives: - entertainment (sic), relationships, youth, elderly, cooking, cleaning, private lives, the police, hospitals, fashion, what to eat, and on and on and on.)

My mind really went into overdrive when the next show came on; something about talented Britons and I flipped my lid when the guy playing a dog bowl with a spoon appeared. (Fortunately the TV reminder kicked in for First Blood!)

So, what is really happening to us? Why do we allow ourselves to be dictated to, to have to endure these utterly feeble excuses for entertainment?

I have a theory!
The human race gets it’s strength from it’s diversity and it’s diversity is the thing that also appears to create conflict. We fight and argue over our religions, our colours, our nationalities, which county we come from, which town or village we belong to! The challenge therefore is that whilst acknowledging that such mentioned differences exist we must still be able to co-exist together and to embrace the fact that we are ALL different: - to revel in that fact actually.
Have you ever heard someone (usually a white person) say about another race (usually a darker skinned type) “oh, we’re just the same,”?
This is the point, we’re NOT the same, we are all different. No two whites are the same; we are all different.

Ok, to the main point; this shitty TV genre is, I believe, pushing us towards aspiring to be the SAME!
Other TV types join in on this too viz; the magaziney news(sic) show, the home improvement show, the start again show, fashion shows and eating shows, even ruddy gardening shows.

I say long live difference and long live NON CONFORMITY!