Well, I've been out of the loop for a while obviously, but things seem to have gone downhill...or maybe I didn't notice how much they sucked to begin with.
Earlier today I was at someone's house and for whatever reason, they turned on the TV and we ended up watching a show about some guys...complete morons, apparently...who wander around a skate park, then went to Las Vegas, had some kind of birthday party at a casino, and then went back to their house and talked about it. They all had fairly new cars with lots of depreciable modifications, like giant wheels or a horned fish painted on the hood.
I'm not complaining about their style of dress or the way they act - even though it's irritating, that's completely subjective. What did stick out was the fact that they portrayed these folks as somehow living in the same house without apparently having any actual source of income. Obviously being on the show is their whole job - but to the average viewer, it seems as if they can literally subsist independently of any kind of income source.
As far as I could see, there was no...
Naturally this would only be a problem for very impressionable young people, but that seems to be who this show was aimed at, and it's those people who are most likely to move out of their parents' home or leave college and then expect to somehow receive invisible support from the Cash Fairy.
I suppose watching it once just left me with a question in my mind as to why these chuckleheads are considered interesting enough to do a TV show around. What about a teenager with average intelligence who watches it regularly? Would it embed more deeply for them?
Is a larger trend of crap like this influencing the general wave of unrealistic handling of money, and dependence-focused mindset that seems to have grown up in the last couple of decades?
Earlier today I was at someone's house and for whatever reason, they turned on the TV and we ended up watching a show about some guys...complete morons, apparently...who wander around a skate park, then went to Las Vegas, had some kind of birthday party at a casino, and then went back to their house and talked about it. They all had fairly new cars with lots of depreciable modifications, like giant wheels or a horned fish painted on the hood.
I'm not complaining about their style of dress or the way they act - even though it's irritating, that's completely subjective. What did stick out was the fact that they portrayed these folks as somehow living in the same house without apparently having any actual source of income. Obviously being on the show is their whole job - but to the average viewer, it seems as if they can literally subsist independently of any kind of income source.
As far as I could see, there was no...
- Mention of work or how they supported themselves economically in any way
- Mention of paying for anything or comparing costs of any kind, although they did eat out at the casino, gamble, get a car painted, etc. Prices were never mentioned.
- Conversations about going to college or going to school anywhere, though they were probably of college age
- Discussion about learning anything, whatsoever
- Instances of doing anything charitable or anything even symbolically nice for anyone outside of their little group
- Suggestion about future goals, aspirations, objectives, etc.
Naturally this would only be a problem for very impressionable young people, but that seems to be who this show was aimed at, and it's those people who are most likely to move out of their parents' home or leave college and then expect to somehow receive invisible support from the Cash Fairy.
I suppose watching it once just left me with a question in my mind as to why these chuckleheads are considered interesting enough to do a TV show around. What about a teenager with average intelligence who watches it regularly? Would it embed more deeply for them?
Is a larger trend of crap like this influencing the general wave of unrealistic handling of money, and dependence-focused mindset that seems to have grown up in the last couple of decades?
