I don't want to be condescending, but...
...wouldn't you just be happier, if you guys let your anger for things that don't affect you evaporate?

I too am of the opinion that (for instance) soap operas are just endless trash, but it really doesn't concern me that people with low intellect/standards like to watch them.

Anyway, without such soaps, those people would still be watching TV (since it is the path of least resistance) but they'd be watching other trash shows. If you remove all the trash TV, you leave the uneducated mind in a vacuum; you have to give it something else to watch, or it might start trying to think for itself, with potentially disastrous consequences.

So, assuming you've gotta now provide something to placate the masses, what options do you have? Either you produce more cheap trash (putting us back in the situation we just got out of), or you have to dumb down the good stuff to make it palatable to the new audience... arguably this is a considerably worse state of affairs, because now all the TV you DID like becomes as bad as Corrie.

Think of it this way... Corrie is like Iceland... it keeps all the proles out of Waitrose.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 5 Feb 2014, 16:11, 2 replies)

They put a hot wire to my head
Cos of the things I did and said
And made these feelings go away
Model citizen in every way

Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Wed 5 Feb 2014, 18:05, closed)

I just wish my Partner didnt like watching it

(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 12:50, closed)