Why do people like reruns? Seems like a silly question right? It's most likely just me but I don’t understand why they like the same thing over and over again. Some people can sit and watch the same episode every night of their life. To be honest people like reruns because they are complacent and love media as it is in their reruns.
Human beings are stubborn creatures. We like things the way they are and take a long time to change our ways. It took years before people to get fed up with the British and their taxes. It took years before man wished to make new inventions. It took years before man started to settle down. The same thing goes for entertainment and other media. I mean People can watch the same TV show, movie, or YouTube video a million times and still love it. They are complacent. They are happy watching the same media or playing the same video games. Hollywood is banking off of this taking our money for the same thing every time. As people we should never be complacent especially with media. Instead of being happy with the same media we should wish for greater things. We should take a risk and support new movies and not just let Hollywood take our money. We should transcend and aspire for new things. Now I am not saying that reminiscing on old videos is bad. Matter of fact some remakes are good. Remakes are only bad when Hollywood uses them as a quick means to make cash. They do this by fooling the consumer into buying it. Hollywood will even try to convince you its a new movie and they can do this because consumers buy it. They do this time and time again because of the complacent consumers. The complacent consumers either can’t tell the difference or just don’t care.
Complacency is bad. Complacency in media is even worse. I mean we pay these people to entertain us and give us new things. As consumers we shouldn’t be happy with the same thing every time. After reading this will you go back to your life of complacent media? or live wanting more from your entertainment.
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