Tolerance and Complacency

Before you delve into this wonder how I'm going to rant about races and equality and all that, I should clarify this. What's been itching me lately is media tolerance and complacency. Now I'm sure you're thinking, "What do you mean Todd?" To which I would say, "We're only two lines in, so stop being impatient and shut up and let me write."

The tolerance part is how we expect companies like Pixar and Bioware to keep showing excellence in their work. I am not saying that holding an industry to a high standard is a bad thing, but we've become tolerant of their work and tend to not look at it fairly. It's like if you were married to a rich person. They might give you a large diamond ring every month. After a while, you would get used to getting the ring, and even get bored with them. Has the diamond become less valuable? No, but the awe has worn off it seems. We start to take excellence as the status quo. A critic once said that Bioware doesn't get points anymore for having amazing writing. Seriously? Other companies can't even compare to the level of quality writing Bioware has, but that quaity, since it came from Bioware, doesn't matter? My issue is that we ask more of the companies that already give us some of the best.

And somehow, complacency is the exact opposite. We are fine with the complete level of garbage than we tend to get. Look at Twilight. I know that insulting Twilight is like playing a quadriplegic in basketball, you'll always win, but you won't have that satisfaction of a hard fought victory. till I feel that my point will be well illustrated by beating this dead horse, (who I have decided to name Gambit, just to mess with some people who might read this.) Most of you should know all of Twilight's faults, but what has been done about it? Nothing. Our society has decided to except that mediocre work of self-pleasing word vomit. Basically, the community has said, "We can't really expect anything better, so we'll just go with it." The film world is especially guilty of this. Things like romance movies and action films are so poorly done that we should be ashamed, but we still go to them since, "things will never get any better."

You want to know why things will never get better? Be cause we don't want them to. We support all the crap that gets put out there with our money. Why is it we don't let the crap that shouldn't be fade away? Don't buy bad books, don't go to see terrible movies, and for God's sake, turn off that reality T.V. The only way for all of the industries to get better is if we hold them to higher standards. What kind of weird, inverse relationship is this world coming to? The better things are, the more we want changed, and the worse things are, the more we settle. These industries serve us, and they need to meet our standards of excellence, no matter how high they are.

Also, I think Hollywood needs to burn Megan Fox at the stake.

Just something to chew on.