Michele’s Freeminding

This is something I’ve always asked myself: can TV shows be used as a meter to see how dumb a nation is?

I don’t know if this is the same in other countries - though I’ve seen truly stupid shows outside Italy, too -, but Italian TV is full of stupid shows. And almost everyday it’s filled with new ones.
I used to watch enough TV, but in the last 2/3 years, I’ve been watching very little of it. And almost everytime I watch it, I wonder how can so many people enjoy it.

I don’t want to sound snob, but this are the facts: it’s veeeery difficult to find enjoyable TV shows. And almost impossible to find intelligent ones!
That’s why I think that TV is an index of stupidity: if so many people watch it, and most of it is made of stupid shows, thus a good part - and I want to make this clear: not everybody, but still the most - of the audience isn’t, say, smart.

And the worst thing are those TV shows that pretend to be higly cultural shows, while they’re not. They’re not intelligent shows, they’re crap.

But this is just my opinion. What do you think about this?

This post was written 3 years, 10 months ago on January 19th, 2005 evening time.