Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Not Everything is Crap!!!!!!!!!!
Sturgeons Law states that freaking 90% of everything on T.V is crap. I beg to differ on this very subjective opinion. Do not get me wrong, I do not watch 90% of the things that are on T.V. but I watch quite a bit of it. What one person may find as interesting, it is true the next person may find as crap, but that depends on that particular person. I am a very subjective and my opinions changes on things all the time. What I may find one day on T.V as informative I may find as crap the next day, because my mood fluctuates all the time. In other words 90% of the things I watch on T.V. I feel are amazing shows, and movies, but many may argue with me and consider it as crap. In my opinion Sturgeons Law is crap, because he should have really thought it out more, and put it in other people perspective.
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You made me go and look it up on Wikipedia: The SL was not a television reference but about sci-fi:
ReplyDeleteThe first written reference to the adage appears in the March 1958 issue of Venture, where Sturgeon wrote:
I repeat Sturgeon’s Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.[1]
Using the same standards that categorize 90% of science fiction as trash, crud, or crap, it can be argued that 90% of film, literature, consumer goods, etc. are crap. In other words, the claim (or fact) that 90% of science fiction is crap is ultimately uninformative, because science fiction conforms to the same trends of quality as all other artforms.
According to Philip Klass (William Tenn), Sturgeon made this remark in about 1951, at a talk at New York University at which Tenn was present.[2] The statement was subsequently included in a talk Sturgeon gave at a session of the World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia, held over the Labor Day weekend of 1953.[3]
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law
Thankyou! I will look more into the link. I understand where you are coming from.
ReplyDeleteI have to take into account the amount of things on television and how much is actually insightful and good for the human condition. I think learning things is awesome, but then again so is a form of escapism. If you look at it in terms of television's role on the literacy and advancement of people, I think that there aren't that many programs that really help us advance...however, there are plenty of specials and newscasts about the things that advance our nation that we do need to know about. I think we need a better overall definition of "crap" :)
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