Television - the authority that destroys human life
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| 06.06.2013, 10:11 AM |
Television - the authority that destroys human life
"Even 30 years ago, no one would dare show on TV what we now see in all the TVs in the world" - says Christophe Nick, the producer of the documentary film "Game of Death".
 
Kamilla Staszak: Do you have a TV at home?
Christophe Nick: - Of course!
After watching your films ("Game of Death" and "Time for access to the human brain"), and after reading the book "Extreme Experience" expected to be rather negative.
- TV, like many other things, it can be seen as something which brings benefit or sowing havoc in our lives. I am not free from its negative impact, because instead of sport practice, I prefer to watch it. Rationalize their laziness, telling myself that in this way I relax after a hard day's work, and for running will take place tomorrow. Due to the type of work that I do, I am not aware of the audience. I manage to avoid the traps from many television. Unfortunately, many people never occurs because the glass screen has become one of the leading authorities of our time.
Fig. Kamilla Staszak Source: www.nauka.wiara.pl
In the picture: Christophe Nick
Did you make a film about the preparations and conduct of the game show "Extreme Zone" [excerpt from the course quiz found at the end of this article]. It illustrates how in the past 20-30 years, changed programs shown on TV all over the world, which is used for marketing the human instincts. Where did the idea?
- A few years ago I watched an episode of the game show "The Weakest Link". And me smitten!
What the Lord moved him so?
- Until now, this type of productions had to know the players. He won the best and the Favored by luck. In this game, but the winner remained the most self-serving of the participants - one that will eliminate the opponent's. Leading allowed herself to extremely malicious and degrading comments to the participants, because these were the foundation of this program. I have found that television has exceeded another taboo. She agreed to humiliate another person. It showed that the cruelty and cynicism may be rewarded - the bad wins and lost one who has scruples. Then by chance I came across a book Milgram Fri "Obedience to authority", which describes how to function in our society agents (usually wpółuświadomione) to prepare us to indulge uncritical authority. How to mindlessly give up orders - even those that are rated as being contrary to our beliefs.
I wanted you to expose television dictator?
- Because TV is a global system whose effects we are undergoing. At different latitudes watching the same TV series, reality shows, similar programs. It seems to us that we are free, and this is just an illusion. In fact, the hand in a velvet glove gently forces us to do what we have done under duress. It is well known that much can be achieved by force. And if it is, the short-term and long-term changes are not. When the Act gentle persuasion - and the other side thinks that it was she who decided - winning is on our side. What we now see on TV all over the world, even 30 years ago no one would have dared to show. Different kind of reality show cross another taboo. They play on the human exhibitionism. They encourage the visibility of what used to be a man intimate zone. The boundaries are shifted with each new program. Another participant wants to cross the prohibited grounds so far to be remembered in the play, in which dazzle with sex, tears, aggression, which is dominated by cynicism, vulgarity and narcissism. British "Channel 4" recently gave a newspaper advertisement in which a terminally ill looking for someone who would be filmed in the last months or weeks of their lives. Of course, for a fee.
That's why you asked the question, "Where can we bring TV?" And showed Mr. torture and probable death on the screen?
- My goal was to warn you that we have come to the point in the history of civilization in which the use of human instincts struck a dangerous border. Flattery low instincts, to satisfy morbid curiosity mixed with slogans struggle for freedom of the press, of expression and defense of democracy. In fact, in terms of making money. The heads of private television openly admit that economic reasons dominate over all matters cultural, or any other, and are just an excuse to increase profits. Patrick Le Lay (CEO of private TV station TF1) said a few years ago that the station is preparing the minds of the viewers to pick the best advertising and selling access time to the human brain. It does not matter what is between advertising breaks, because these blocks are the most important. To them you need to attract readers of newspapers or viewers in all possible ways. Articles, programs are only the charge, which is to support consumption - to introduce and encourage buying. Once television was under the political control and now came under the control of marketing. And it is now the biggest threat. The problem is not television itself, but the fact that in many ways it seeks to change human behavior that they can be monitored and modeled.
For people always tried in different ways to affect ...
- And often it was morally questionable impact. Just wanted to point out to these negative impacts.
Do you think that this challenge will mean that the heads of television in the world is to decide whether or not to replace "have" to "be"?
- I'm not going to shock anyone, but I get to think and react. Call the public debate on what is shown on television, and the impact of this on human authority.
Many people did not like the branding methods used in reality shows do you use the same to attract attention and get rich ...
- I did not think my film will meet with such negative emotions. I think many of us were scared. We have seen that reflected themselves in the mirror. I zlękliśmy that we also in this case probably would have done so, as most of the participants of the experiment.
Renowned psychologist Philip Zimbardo also condemned to repeat scientific experiment in television as a new method of sensation-seeking and promoting evil.
- Does he even saw my video? Could have made their mind about it only on the basis of media reports, which, as it turns out, in some cases took from my film what they think best to sell, or electrical shock in a sensational package. A journalist adjudicated opinions, but we have not seen the film! I completely missed an attempt to find an answer to the question why this has all been done - because it would require a deeper theme, showing nuances, which, as it turns out, for the journalists themselves become too difficult. Then, members of the media have to take their share of responsibility for what they do, how it is perceived and how it affects society.
Then they would have to face the truth. Everyone wants it, but when I finally know it, you do not want to believe it, because I do not want to hear the truth ...
- That's why most hurt me to just criticism of the journalist. Many journalists complain in private conversations that they have to prepare the intellectual mush just because they sell well. Then they are afraid to admit that what they are doing and how it has a big impact on people. We have shown that anyone acting on TV is ready to act as thought - that it should, but it is not able to oppose the imposed rules of the game.
Lord also alleged that the participants were misled because you do not know what's involved, have been subjected to stress and television studio can not be considered as a site for scientific experiments.
- Why TV can not be regarded as an area of scientific research? Television is not a golden calf! Many people came over unless some light-headedness, I defiled their object of worship. They wanted to lynch me, instead of thinking critically over my arguments. This shows how much we all been influenced by a glass screen. Everyone wants to protect him, because he spends in front of him after a few hours a day.
You could not think of another way to show the impact of the authority of television on people's behavior?
- Sure I could. But when I began my film - supported by many people - we all thought that it was such an approach would be best. According to social psychologists, the best way to observe any behavior or emotion is to call them in situations that you can control. Even recourse to lie in a given situation is acceptable. After recording, each participant was informed about the project and surrounded psychological care. By the way, we conducted other studies.
What?
- Experiment was subjected to the audience. Recording of the program lasted several days, and people changed twice a day, watching the four participants. Jean-Paul, the actor struck by shock, he was always the same. After the first recording all received a questionnaire to fill out. We told them that this is a pilot of a new TV show, and we need their opinion about it. Some were outraged. Several people have the belief that the whole is faked. Almost all said they Jena-Paul is a bad candidate. It rained a lot of the blame for the fact that it can easily infect shock, because I do not know the answer. And it allows the game show has grown, and they came here to have fun! No one protested. No one has left a TV studio.
Is not it shows that we trust television?
- Here's what to prove that blind trust in authority. Our criticism turns off suddenly.
Therefore, the fight for access to the media and arguing about what should be there and how it is to be presented, are one of the bloodiest wars of the twenty-first century.
- Especially on TV, which is not only the authority, but also for many people the main - and often, unfortunately, the only - source of knowledge about the world. Our other experiments have shown that loneliness is the cause of giving up authority and the failure to object to his orders. In the case of our experiment on TV, it turned out that even when running the program left the studio and came manufacturer, who urged to stop the game show, it did not change anything. Neither led nor the manufacturer is not represented in the eyes of the participants authority. Overriding authority was television itself. People act in a way that worked out on the basis of previously seen program. Behave in ways that they knew because it seemed to them that they should do so. Man is the essence of which can be shaped in different ways. Watching TV, uodporniliśmy and we have become less sensitive to human harm. Vision is the most important of the human senses. Once we kreowaliśmy images. Now they create us.
"Extreme Zone" - just a game show [below its passage]
"Stop it! No longer want to play! Let me out of here! "- Jean-Paul screams. She begins to cry. Once again, gives the wrong answer during a television game show called "Extreme Zone". Patrick, another participant who asks questions, so pulling the lever, increasing amounts of power striking Jean-Paul. It started with 20 volts. For every poor response the dose is 40, 60, 80, 100 volts. At 280, and the increasingly loud wailing Patrick looks uncertainly at leading the program ...
Tania Young, known for zapowiadaniu weather on the network news in "France 2", a voice says: "The logic of the game requires that you continue. You must obey the rules of the game ". And if that does not work, asks the audience: "You have no right to prevent another candidate for winning. Do you agree with me? ". The public supports it. Patrick ranges. In the end pulls the lever that says 460 volts. The lethal dose for humans.
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