With a reality show host currently in the White House, the country’s whole political system seems to be degenerating into a reality show in its actions.
Now there is the recent campaign ad by Andrew Yang.
There is nothing against Yang personally. He seems like a solid person who genuinely wants to improve the country and world in positive ways.
It is his recent campaign ad that is somewhat disconcerting. It is on the level of a game show prize giveaway geared to increase his support. This act seems to further push our political system down the game show/reality show path.
It should be a goal of the country’s voters to pull ourselves out of this game show mentality. Running a country is a very complex serous business in today’s world. There needs to be a focus to return to actually governing, rather than continue down the game show mentality path.
The current reality seems to be going down this path, which was parodied in the film Idiocracy (2007 release). The movie is a satire on what if our political system degenerated to the current culture of reality TV. The movie was meant to be a farce, but reality is beginning to degenerate in that direction.
We need to pull ourselves out of this mentality and correct the pressing urgent issues:
- Climate change
- Alternative Renewable Energy
- World over population putting too much stress on resources
- Ever increasing rule of the rich, and turning everyone else into indentured servants.
- Automation taking over jobs (A serious problem, especially if world population growth is left unchecked)
- Racism/White Nationalism
- Health care
- Retirement protection for the elderly
- The list is endless……
This is why we need to pull ourselves out of the game show mentality, and begin addressing these issues.
Some might say Yang’s ad is trying to do something, but it seems to be adding to the wrong mentality rather than moving the country out of this path of degeneration.
Today’s issues are an impossibly complex set of challenges, but there will be no meaningful progress if we continue down the reality TV show mentality of governing.
EDIT:
Some of the comments are fair enough that the ad is just promoting a test of Yang’s UBI plan. It still reads too much like an “Enter to Win” Game Show. If the ad wants to promote a UBI test, the below ad would be more appropriate. It’s reads more like a job application than a prize contest. A job application is a better tone, and is a more appropriate approach to this issue than a game show appeal.