Decay of human values
Well, I have to say first that I fought with myself a lot not to write this post, but I couldn't overcome (myself). Because there is freedom of speech here in my personal oasis of free expression, but does one really know how freely one can express...frustration for example. Which many people feel but would not express publicly.
And here I am today again sitting down to write a post, some of my non-positive thoughts about my non-positive life, and I see a news story and the following 130 only negative comments on the topic that has hit me very recently and I can't help it. 😃 So, I'm not going to tell you my personal non-positive observations and musings today. Because there is something stronger than that.
See for yourself:
"Decay of human values."
"I don't want to be part of that Europe."
"May a meteor fall and destroy this planet. The human race is scum. Let the dinosaurs come back."
"Disgusting!"
"Decline has reached its lowest point!"
"A show about freaks and politics."
"Europe buried itself."
"Euro vision - Perverted vision"
You already guessed it.
Well, call me old fashioned, old, retrograde sure, but I never understood the point of this contest. What's more, I don't like it, and every time I happen to watch it, I regret wasting my time on this... thing.
Bulgarian TV didn't broadcast the contest this year, like last year, so I'm glad I didn't waste my time again like two years ago, because I probably wouldn't have held back and watched again just to see how far it would go in... crossing borders.
Therefore, after the scandal with the performer from the Netherlands, out of pure curiosity I watched the compilation of short parts of the songs involved and I was not surprised. But again I asked myself the question, what is the purpose of this contest.
Show the rest of the world "European values"? Let everyone see what we do here and how we "evolve"? I don't think anyone will have a good impression of the Europeans then.
Oh wait, that's not actually a European contest. Various countries from other continents participate in it too, and the most persistent in this regard is Israel. But as one comment helpfully pointed out, if Israel is in Europe, then Syria and Egypt must also be there, for example.
Well, we have to admit that this is not a competition of Europe, although it has the pretensions of such, at least because of its name. And now this idea actually calms me down. Because I also don't want to be part of this Europe where there are 54 genders and people don't know their gender until they are 24 years old. Call me retrograde, but I still see men as men and women as women, and when I see a man with a beard wearing a dress, my ideas get confused and I feel sick because of that.
Today I thought of saying only something about the Bulgarian performers so far. But when I looked at the list of those who appeared over the years, I felt sorry for the country. I think that Bulgaria has tried everything to make a good impression and win some more advanced place. Unfortunately, nothing has worked, neither sending singers with the opposite sexual orientation, nor something like a drag queen, nor a Roma performer, nor an artist with a difficult past and personal problems, nor sending a good singer, lol. Nothing. Maybe that's why it hasn't participated in the competition in recent years.
And I think this is the best solution. Money is saved, nerves are saved, shocks that inevitably follow every year are saved, and thus mental health is preserved.
Because, I don't know why, but on this quick first (and only) review of the participating songs this year, one thing came up as a feeling in me - the nagging sense of madness, of people on the edge, people with problems, mental problems. I even instinctively asked myself the question: How many of these artists, well, some of them, not all of them exude this madness, but how many of these artists will live long? This may seem strange to you, but these things are easily felt. On an instinctive level.
And the organizers of this competition, as with any reality show, emphasize personal drama to promote their contestants to ensure their viewership. Because everyone loves drama, everyone wants to hear about the hard life of others, especially to watch such people who after the hard life have risen and reached this music competition, for example. But everything for me has its limits. Some kind of moral-human limits, if we haven't already completely forgotten what that means, and this contest seems quite special. I would call it the Contest or the Vision of the Different. I think this is the fairest name. Not the vision of Europe in general, because this part of different people is not a majority after all, there is no way to become the face of Europe in front of the rest of the world.
Later I read something about one of the songs that had a warning for young children not to watch it. Well, here I completely lost the meaning of this European-world competition with light and understandable music, impersonal and impotent even in some respects such as music, text, creativity, such that can be perceived by everyone, in order to be watchable, could not this assumption be true?
Maybe that's another topic anyway.
Just now I found another post on a social network with about 800 negative comments from Bulgarians. And hey, for the first time I agree with this people, 😂 for the first time I feel something like pride to be a part of it.
Someone had compared the Bulgarians in these comments in terms of thinking with the thinking in the Middle Ages. But that's not an insult to me right now. 😃
I really wanted to use some photos of decay for this post, but the only ones I found are from the Fisherman's Village to my beloved city of Burgas, where the decay is even cute.
Love that iconic first shot with the preserved steps of a ruined house with the sea behind. And the last picture shows a very polite way of spelling an obscene word or swear word, which I really like for its inventiveness. 😂
But I promise to show you better things from this place in the next posts.
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I never saw this song contest with stupid singers and bad songs. Music is not so important and especially this kind of music is not important for me at all.
By the way, they can call it Galactic Music Contest and invite singers from mars if they want. There's no Trademark for the word Europe as well. It's like a call for a challenge on blockchain. Any user can organize a competition and title it however they like. In music business and TV the one with the biggest mouth will gather the most people who enjoy tasteless tralali and tralala..
For "a frog" in "the pond"? I doubt that 🤭
Joking aside, I think you underestimate the importance of this competition, not by chance called European, in which one's ideas and views are promoted, constant propaganda flows at political, cultural, social, state and any level.
But you are right that one should not pollute one's mind and ears with such garbage, one should not even think about it, of course, because it is a waste of time.
P.S. I really enjoyed reading your witty comment. 😂Thank you!
You are welcome.
Oh, there's some great music around the pond. For frogs commercial music is the counter revolution of good taste. Ponds music sounds quite different from Abba and disco style.
Like🗦ribbit🗧and🗦croak🗧… you know!
Ha ha, I see. 🤩 My music (favorite) is also for sure different from that.
Someone said it out loud again. Thank you because sometimes I (we) feel that we are not evolving. Well I don't want to evolve really if that's about it. No, a big fat NO!
It's not only about Europe, pick any show on TV and you just pray under your breath, please let it be a retrograde, old school and somewhat sane where twisted values, drugs, drags and things like these are not glorified and justified.
I'm also as old school as they come when it pertains to things like these...
Admittedly, even I wondered how to say it. And I haven't even used the words that should be used. Because somehow it seems the world is silent now. It's like everything is fine, nothing happened, nothing is happening. And so, as nothing is happening, one day a person will turn around and say: Wait a minute, when did all this come?
There was a joke I read some time ago on FB that my heterosexual male acquaintances were sharing. Something like: Once upon a time, being gay was forbidden, but I hope I can die before it becomes mandatory.
A joke. But somehow it doesn't sound like a joke anymore.
Too bad for us, because we will perish ourselves. Physically, mentally and spiritually.
One attends college, higher education, and continues to educate oneself.
How can one not? A cornucopia of the unknown lies in front of our eyes, like every person born before us and every person after.
And even after we are adults, no matter how much we know there is a fog between what we know and what is actually there.
Here in America for example: we watch as Trump is defiled, picked, skewered with a fork, cut into diced pieces, and eaten as we are for the things we know. In spite all that, there he stands and there we stand as he does.
For he is as we are. He worked for the good and so did we.
I had a bizarre learning experience when I exited the military and I took a job with a small cable television network in Oklahoma.
It was a Christian channel run by a professor at the junior college and played sermons in church's from there area, all black. And it played hit Christian songs. I helped edit and sold advertising. I began to see the amount of awesome music and music videos as popular as the Grammy hits top twenty and these unknown artists that are rarely announced by the media sell more songs and have more listeners than what "The Media" released by far.
It was like by accident, a door opened and I saw that world was not lost that there was a powerful voice that spoke heard everyone and yet no one, like me, knew about it or even how to buy the music.
The songs of angels.
It's true. There are so many talented people, so many wonderful voices, there are those that no one even knows exist, or those that only their relatives know about, or only the local parish or some small region, or some regional television.
Sometimes it happens, at some annual concerts or shows in which something has to be sung, great singers appear who study at the conservatory, for example, who sing professionally and somehow find or never find a way to a professional implementation. But I always say this to myself: Wow, how come I haven't seen this wonderful singer before, why don't I know about their existence? Why don't they promote them? Why aren't their performances on the radio?
It turns out that only certain people reach certain heights, people chosen and supported by someone for some reasons. And these are often not necessarily the most talented and capable people. And it's a pity for the rest of the population. It is simply deprived of the opportunity to see them, to enjoy their talent.
Actually, they are Christian artists and technicians. There's radio networks, like KLOV(e). Um there's huge concerts with up to a hundred thousand people. There are movies and TV Shows with A List actors and actresses. The singers can include, Dolly Parton, Latifah, Whitney Houston when she was alive, Willie Nelson, and actors like Nicholas Cage, Kevin Sorbo, Kirk Cameron... And more, here's a picture of an Acapella group
Willie Nelson, and when they make these movies, Amy Grant is the number one selling artist in the world but she never made news until she sold more albums than Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley.
And list goes on God's Not Dead I, II, III. DRIVE ANGRY, The Apocalypse, their huge and even in Europe.
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