Show Biz


I want to talk about the showbiz industry. I think the world right now is about to be ruled by this kind of industry. How many films that been released around the world every year? how many songs ? how many bands that have been established? how many photo sessions taken every year? every month? every day? OMG, there are sooooo countless....

the booming of this industry has make a new civilization to the latest generation. Call it movie stars, music stars, pop singers, rockers, models, you name it. Nowadays we can see there are so many children want to be super stars when they're grow up. I still remember when I was a kid, me and any other kids in my neighborhood (some village in Jakarta) would say that we wanted to be doctor, engineer, nurse, police, army someday. Not much of us that willing to be a super star. I don't want to generalize it, that's why I said, in my neighborhood, a little village in Jakarta.
We thought that superstars like movie star, singer, model, would be inappropriate, unclever, and showed that you don't have enough brain to learn how to reach those academical ideals. Yeah, that was my time, year of 80 - something.

I don't know, call me conservative, but this phenomenon worries me. It freaks me to see the talent shows with sms in almost all of TV station. My God! how much money we've spent for the sms? why don't TV make a more useful show with sms thing, for, let's say, organize a fund for our brothers and sisters who got disasters in their home town? with 2000 rp /sms, I think it's a very easy way to get money to help them.

When I think about that, I feel very sorry about my country again. I feel upset about how my brother & sister in showbiz industry created this condition and ruined our national moral.
Just one example, to describe how this showbiz world rules the latest generation, when I was in high school, about 15 years a go, there were some extra school curriculum like basketball, karate, taekwondo, science, red cross, nature lover, vocal group, flag troop (I don't know how to say it in English), etc that were offered to us. The composition of the students that joined the groups was almost the same in number, but nearly 40% joined the flag troops. It was so classy when you were chosen to be one of the flag troop, the member were so proud and had certain privilege or something. But now, I asked my nephew that goes to the same high school, what is the most popular ext-school recently?

his answer: vocal group has reaches 70% of the popularity, and he is included in that percentage.

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