Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why some of the vices we stand on the roof tops to discourage are the very ones we contentedly sit down to watch on TV (to our detriment, no doubt)?
We grin, laugh, smile and purse our lips when we watch steamy love scenes and passionate kissing courtesy of the manifold soap operas that grace our sets. What would prevent a teenager from experimenting with what they watch?
During the day we rebuke immorality, promiscuity and other such ‘vices’; In the evening it is served hot(on TV) for us to savour and join in the fray. Why this ambiguity? What message is being delivered to the multiple audience stake holders at the end of the day?
The soaps ‘teach’ us that having multiple sexual partners is alright as long as you have the money to keep the ‘relationship’ going. They also aim at making us believe that divorce is the sure-fire way of dealing with issues in marriage. Patience and perseverance in marriage are no-go zones according to these programmes that have taken Kenya by storm, of late.
Western mentality is being slid down our throats (without our noticing it) through these programmes. We open our arms to welcome their insidious notions and ideals. We try as much as we can not to miss watching them.
I know of a certain woman who sulks the whole evening if she is ‘disturbed’ as she watches her favourite soap. When her husband wants to talk to her or asks her for food or bath water she gives a thousand and one excuses just to make sure that she watches the soap without missing any action. Talk of disrespect and disregard!
Where are we headed if this is the status quo? I dare say, homes are crumbling and disintegrating thanks to the aforementioned. Though their story lines are very interesting and spellbinding, there is a dark abyss under their seemingly harmless façade.
1 comment:
Hi Ritch,
A lot of the stuff you mentioned resonates with what I've observed in Kenyan media over the years. As you pointed out, there has been a deliberate effort to glorify the inglorious.
Unfortunately, most of us have kept quiet as these things continue to be promoted by western media into our lifestyles. The best example is of course the subject of homosexuality.
We are constantly being extolled by the west and other so called 'liberal" people that Africans should move into modernity by accepting it as normal. Well, here is one proud African who is not willing to blindly follow the west and South Africa (shame on their parliament!).
The World Social Forum in Nairobi early this year woke me up to the fact that homo lobbies are seriously promoting the vice in Kenya. This prompted me to set up a non-religious blog which successfully continues to confront without mincing words the fallacies being advocated by gay lobbies.
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