Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00123)

Dear Jerry and Anand,

You wrote:

>The most popular program at the time was a series called "Beverly 
Hills 90210." It was a fictional series about the sex lives of 
teenage kids growing up in Beverly Hills.<

>Perhaps most people in the world like this subject. TV programs are 
made according to demand from people. There is huge demand for such 
programs and so producers make and show such programs.<

>Precisely. And what does this say about "most people's" values?<


I won't be so sure on that.

I would rather say that TV producers are creating such demand 
appealing to the material side of human nature out of corporate 
interests and in that way ruing people's values.

The same story is with public opinion polls. Are they stating or are 
they creating public opinion?

It seems to me that we are in front of a kind of "Potemkin's 
village" – that we see the things as someone, out of an interest, 
want to present them to us and not as they really are.

Kind regards,
Anton

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