Jersey Shore- What a Nightmare!
Last eve, as I finish up sewing, I lay down to partake in some television viewing and decide to fore go my Roku and actually tune into a television show. I went higher up into the channels and decided to watch Jersey Shore because it is so saturated in the media that we all are subject to on a daily basis.
As I watch them file into their “new” Miami location, being paid $30,000 per episode, I realize that I haven’t heard a word used larger than suntan, and that the obvious lack of intellect should probably be embarrassing for them, but then again, in America we aren’t exactly bending our brains much- and we aren’t making intelligence and being smart cool.
As a matter of fact, television programming is striving to do the opposite! It is adding to the denigration of American Society at Large. This show is the grand-daddy of all that is wrong with America and I don’t understand why the media keeps covering, it why the President mentions it, which is a whole nother issue I don’t care to get into.
Jersey Shore should be shown in schools as a prime example of what is wrong with America, and how one should never behave. The women focus on highlighting external body parts, hair, tanned skin, ample cleavage, heels, and a the vocabulary of an 8 year old. The men focus on, hair, sun tans, ridiculously “sparkly” clothing and fitness. Thank god fitness is amplified because truly that is the only redeeming quality of this show. The girls are out of shape and focused on fighting, drinking, and wondering why the men they choose aren’t mature and don’t respect them.
If American media wasn’t publicizing this so ad nauseum I wouldn’t feel compelled to ensue this diatribe. Jersey Shore should be viewed as everything that is wrong with youthful society of America– To make celebrities out of people with brains no larger than a chick pea is a crime. They should be made an example of, WHAT NOT TO BE, WHAT NOT TO BEHAVE LIKE, WHAT NOT TO WEAR, WHAT NOT TO SAY, WHAT NOT TO DO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE!
America is becoming lazier and lazier and less concerned with creativity, intelligence, and ingenuity. It is becoming the largest trailer park on the planet. No one wants to think, work for what they get and emulate people who are incredibly vapid, unattractive and scarily stupid.
The behavior on Jersey shore depicts operating in life as if in the 5th grade in terms of being able to handle your emotions, vocabulary, and emphasizing only physical attributes to deem your total worth to someone else. The larger the boobies, the darker the skin, the longer the hair, the more makeup, the higher the heels, the sexier and more valuable you are. Wow, really?!
Shouldn’t Jersey Shore be packaged with the show COPS? Double header… maybe people want to see the lowest form of human society back to back, a double feature portrayal– a veritable slice of American trash pie. The violence on both shows is equal and performed regularly by both casts! The actual physical attacking and regular threats of “let’s step outside” to one another because of an inability to express yourself any other way is despicable, EMBARRASSING and pedestrian.
I am able to discern due to my striving to be a productive person in society, but MTV caters to younger minds which are formative and vulnerable. Youth is searching for an identity and they see these sort of people being televised, covered in major magazines, so they think that this must be the way to behave because they are and they are on TV! The ultimate prize.
Can’t MTV come up with something that empowers youth to want to become better? Smart is cool, and there are so many ways to portray it so that it becomes attractive to the youth of today. That is what was so great about punk rock, and independent films in the 80s. It fostered a coming together of youth that were striving for intelligence, getting 4.0’s in college, trading cool books, talking about philosophy and going to see indie films. That was a regular part of the crowd at hardcore shows. No wonder we found ourselves to be “elitists.” We weren’t buying into retardville. We knew there was a better and more productive way to grow and to find ourselves. Through books, literature, conversations about being vegetarian, organic foods, etc. What a totally different scene! And our parents didn’t understand, and thought hard core was so evil. They would be so relieved now to read this, knowing what was going down as we skated to the local VFW hall to be “intellectual” as we released our anger to 7 seconds, Minor Threat, and Murphy’s Law, etc. –through hardcore and later talking about books. Most every person I ever met at these shows was in college, getting great grades, dj’ing at the university radio station and questioning life- wanting to learn even more while not in class! We bragged about the latest Bukowski book we were reading and how raw and real the writing was. There was also a big “straight edge” continence abroad this lifestyle which meant many of the kids didn’t drink, smoke or have sex. Much different than today, and our parents were scared? What a joke!
Come on MTV, Step it up- Show smarter, hipster, edgier kids who have an imagination, who are creating the next wave of internet fame, fashion, and innovations through intellect, and using their minds to further themselves! CONSCIOUS MEDIA! I am appalled and sickened by the enforcement of stupidity on television. How is society going to improve if we keep publicizing and creating fame out of the dumb?
You said it, sister! You amusingly summed up the superficiality of it! Yeesh! Why do so many people seem to have such bad taste? I think you’re right though. The right kind of marketing can probably win over people who would otherwise be uninterested.