WHAT IS THE AIM OF ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY LEADERS?

There is many people all over the world who are plainly pissed at the way things are! And it seems to me I am slowly but unavoidably becoming one of them. Some of you might say: "Papi, come on, you're just getting old!" Or, one of you might say to the other: "He definitely ain't getting laid as much as he would like to, if at all!" Surely, these comments might be true, but somehow I feel and know the problem lies elsewhere. For a long time I have those thoughts, harbored certainly by many people all over the world. Thoughts of not everything being well with the way the empty yet loud models of pop culture being pushed through mass media and entertainment outlets under the false claims that it is what the people really want. I myself never wanted it, and I do not know many people who ever themselves enjoyed it or demanded. How then those controlling and managing the mass media and entertainment industry know that what they sell to us is what the people at large really want? Is it a question of determining of what the audience want or what it should want in opinion of the owners and managers of the entertainment and mass media business? Because if it is not what we want, but what we should want, in perception of those who commandeer the entertainment and mass media industries, then it seems that the entertainment and mass media are manipulating us and our needs, tastes, dreams and desires to accept the product which they want to sell to us, and which has nothing to do with our tastes and needs. And if this is so, then manipulation of our needs, tastes, dreams and desires becomes suspect at best. Why do they want us, the little people, to accept product like untamed violence, or violent, deviant and pervert depiction of love and sex, or movies so senseless as Transformers, etc., or various stupid and empty reality shows, or role models like Kardashians and other celebrities of a similar kind? Why this kind of entertainment is provided to us when clearly it attacks what is good in us, in society, and we can all sincerely say that our inner selves do not need or desire this kind of product for any purpose whatsoever. As far as I am offended often by senseless or rigid political correctness, at least I can say that it serves to some degree some community higher aims, when it protects people from bigotry, ostracisms, isolation, etc. But what aim serves the entertainment which the controllers and managers of that industry attempt to sell us? Even though we do not need it as it does not please us? Did they ever apologize to the victims of mass shootings in Columbine High School, Aurora Movie Theater, Newtown School, Virginia Tech Massacre, etc.? Did they even try to reexamine how to handle violence in movies? Do they still think that showing love scenes in movies is more dangerous than untamed violence? Do I need to see all those vampire movies? Surely, not. Then, please do illuminate me, what is the aim of your entertainment?

Janusz Andrzejewski is a New York City based attorney, writing on legal and other important community topics. You may contact him by telephone (212) 634-4250  or through his e-mail: janusz@januszandrzejewski.com