I swear you that I logged in today with the best intentions: writing a nice airy light happy entry... And then I decided ti catch up with my messages... Ta ta ta taaaaaaa!
Well someone fired me again on the Cowell case. As much as I 'd like to be cool and serene and just can't not react... Aaaargh... For those who have read my previous entries, you have already had to go through my rant about Britain's got talent. Well, it seems that one of my fellow bloggers brought the so called X factor programme in the ring. His fault! Sorry but I cannot stay silent. Rrrrrant coming!!!
Let me get it straight once and for all:
Cowell and friends are responsible for the decadence of the country. I said it and I maintain it.
You know what? I cannot possibly watch this programme for more than 2 minutes. All right... yes... those awfull contestants are crap. What a surprise! And my god what a display do we get of these untalented ones! Sure we all question the motivation of these very obviously very very very bad contestants! How could they even believe for a second that they will be considered!!! Even before they hit the notes you can tell they don't stand a chance. Righty oh, here is my point: you don't need to be a pro to call crap crap, you and me can do the job easily.
So, why the f**k do we have to watch the obvious low when the programme is supposedly about finding the creme de la creme?
Well I would like to give you my opinion on this. The programme is not about what it says it is about.
Shock, horror!
Well, yes, ladies and gentlemen, these people standing there all righteous and allegedly satisfying an honourable purpose are in fact disgusting and dirty hypocrites. Oh yes, they pretend to be doing a reputable job and using their supposed talent and experience to select the very best for your eyes only. And you know what? They actually really make sure that you believe that this is their main motivation by setting up the plot of a very genuine selection of potentials.
Is this what makes their bread and butter? Eventually a little maybe. Do you know what really makes their bread and butter? Come on, you do know! What is that you really really enjoy in the programme? Let's be honest here... We all luuuurve watching the losers. These oh so cocky losers that have failure written all over their foreheads and makes us laugh at loud for being so stupid to ever even believe that they might have a little chance at success. Before they open their mouth we can tell. They look bad, they act silly and all about them is wrong. Here they go with the first notes and manage to confirm immediately what we were expecting only managing to make it even worse than expected. How shameful and how laughable. But hey let's be honest, also so conforting. And here it is, the fact is that the lowest you are feeling at this precise moment, the better this public broadcasted failure will bring you up. Watching worst losers than can ever possibly imagine yourself to be makes you feel better. It is a fact. We watch X factor and immediately feel that there is someone worse out there.
As most of you know I haven't got a tv, for mental sanity reasons but really bad addiction for terrible tv. So how do I know about the X factor? Well strangely enough I have been sent a few Youtube links or whatever they were before youtube was invented. So here I am opening links with snippets from a programmme allegedly selecting specially gifted performers. And you what those links contained? Well really disgraceful performances, so bad they were actually funny, not funny haha but more the kind of funny you feel bad at laughing at. At first. But then come on you feel ok to laugh at oud because after all these people went there with their consent and knowing they were filmed.
My point is that I have never received an email with a really good performance. Yes I have heard of the lady who keeps bleeding love and I know that she won the contest. Seriously: well done and congrats to Mr. Cowell for producing a cash cow. Now I just wonder about what happened in between the dismissal of la crap de la crap and the making of la creme de la creme...
The thing is that really no one cares. The terrible performances surf the web but none of the talents who were selected together with Leona Lewis do get as much exposure. How odd, don't you think?!!!
Well let me tell you how it is. Cowell and his little friends are not into showing you talent. Their business is the broadcast of mediocrity and if possible anything below. Crap on display is really what they want to show you but they haven't got the guts to just do that. Oh no, they couldn't possibly admit that they are purposedly displaying the very very bad ones for your eyes only, that would make them look bad... Instead they just pretend that they are fulfilling the very special and harduous task of identifying budding talents amongst an ocean of deluded freaks.
Cowell and co make me sick. They do a dispising job. The roman emperors who were puting naked slaves together with lions in the arena to cheer the crowds were not so much worse in my opinion, and at least they were not using false pretenses when it came to satisfy the worst appetites of their audience.
I am not a fan of roman games. If you actually consider that they might have managed to entertain a very dissatisfied crowed and delayed a potential revolution you will more so remember that they were one of the very picturesque signs of the decline of a civilisation in total decadence...
X Factor similarly draws a very sad image of our society. As much as it is entertaining to see incredibly motivated and equally incredibly awfull candidates, we must remember that they are on tv only to make us all, and especially those amongst us in the worst case scenario of our society, that out there someone is even worse.
X Factor works as a tool to keep the masses quiet. It is a tool to make everybody feel good about the fact that out there there is worse than me. This programme makes us apathetic and self satisfied. It contributes to our desire to forget that with a little more effort we all could do better, we all could ask for more. This programme, like many others on all our channels by the way, is symptomatic of our decadence as a civilisation and our forfeit towards looking out for excellence.

Well, I warned you at the very beginning! And if you are not happy, blame Andrew: he started it by commenting on X Factor...
For you all who read me, please believe that I have hope and that I believe that we can do better, ask for better and get better. I am up for it. Who follows me?