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X factor Rant!

Posted in In the news, faith, media on September 4, 2008 at 12:50 pm

The X factor is back. That people watch it I can believe, that intelligent caring people watch it I believe but only because I have witnessed them doing it. The humiliation of obviously incapable people for the purpose of entertainment is obscene.

We used to open our mental hospitals for the public to go and laugh at the deranged but society has thankfully moved on. Or not, it seems to have moved back as now we televise them and get Simon Cowell et al get to poke them with sharp stick to make them cavort some more. It may just be an emotional stick but I don’t think even the Victorians allowed that sort of thing.

I expect it is quite funny, Mr Cowell can probably be quite witty and the contestants deserve it - no they don’t. Laughing at someone who thinks they are going to be great entertainer when they patently lack basic social skills has no more merit than laughing at someone who thinks they are Napoleon. I appreciate not all the contestants are mad but some obviously are.

I personally would rather watch a public execution - at least the victims have been convicted of something.