[Nemo123]

Banksterism?

They've had 5 to 6 years to create an allegory of the Banksters, and yet they haven't.

So, how relevant or irrelevant is Big Brother? Just bread and circuses?
I think so. For the masses.

[Nemo123]

Do you not think banksterism was ripe for parody, and ripe for a subject matter for Big Brother. Do you not think it was prominent, head and shoulders and torso above every social subject, ripe for jeux sans frontier, or Big Brother, the enormous greed of the banksters? Don't English people deserve an education, because they don't get one in school? Big Brother could have explained how high finance works, and made a clever series in the process. And it has been crying out for to be told to the people.

[Nemo123]

British people and Irish people and people worldwide are so poorly educated about how banking works, they are made to feel guilty and responsible for the debts of their economies. These are banking debts, half the blame a least belongs with irresponsible lenders, who are bailed out. Not at all with the people at the bottom of the pile who are made suffer the austerity. What's terrible is that ordinary people are not educated in the educational system. We are taught a fiction which makes us wear hair shirts in times of austerity, and bear all the responsibility for bad debts. But bad debs are created by bad bankers, not bad lenders. Banks pushing cheap money on its customers. When it goes tits up they bear most of the responsibility, or should do, but they are bailed out by he govt., printing free money like the best of counterfeiters. And all this free money is used to re-inflate the last failed model of capitalism. It's called kicking the can down the road. The poor face cuts, and the property bubble classes enjoy huge rewards for sitting on their assets. It's doomed to failure, and massive failure at that, probably in the next 2 years.

[Apple202]

the what

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Apple202

the what

And there is your answer, Nemo.

[Jordan.]

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Nemo123

British people and Irish people and people worldwide are so poorly educated about how banking works, they are made to feel guilty and responsible for the debts of their economies. These are banking debts, half the blame a least belongs with irresponsible lenders, who are bailed out. Not at all with the people at the bottom of the pile who are made suffer the austerity. What's terrible is that ordinary people are not educated in the educational system. We are taught a fiction which makes us wear hair shirts in times of austerity, and bear all the responsibility for bad debts. But bad debs are created by bad bankers, not bad lenders. Banks pushing cheap money on its customers. When it goes tits up they bear most of the responsibility, or should do, but they are bailed out by he govt., printing free money like the best of counterfeiters. And all this free money is used to re-inflate the last failed model of capitalism. It's called kicking the can down the road. The poor face cuts, and the property bubble classes enjoy huge rewards for sitting on their assets. It's doomed to failure, and massive failure at that, probably in the next 2 years.

I think we're all aware (especially in Ireland after the bail out and the s**ty few years we've had over it) that the banks and our government are taking the piss. It's all we've been hearing everytime the news or the radio goes on. I don't see what the connection between that and watching BB for a bit of escapism is though

[Z]

How would Big Brother go about making a social commentary about the banking system? What?

[user104658]

Did Lauren Harries not have a little rant about this during a task on the last CBB? I remember her being applauded by a few of the others. I was surprised they bothered to air it, to be fair.

[Kizzy]

It's being said that reality TV and celeb culture are being fed to the masses as a smokescreen to mask the important issues we should be all focused on and informed about.
It's only escapism if you're aware of both.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nemo123

Banksterism?

They've had 5 to 6 years to create an allegory of the Banksters, and yet they haven't.

So, how relevant or irrelevant is Big Brother? Just bread and circuses?
I think so. For the masses.

Very Important

Endemols Big Brother
has brought new people to Ch5HD



Life In The City

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

It's being said that reality TV and celeb culture are being fed to the masses as a smokescreen to mask the important issues we should be all focused on and informed about.
It's only escapism if you're aware of both.

Yes Kizzy
thats why 24/7 Live Feed (when we had it)
is worthy
as we can Escape the Days News.