[FairfieldLife] Re: Bad TV, and how the TMO should market TM
Very good review about TM and very great advice to the TMO! Precisely why I read your posts, even if some are long winded, sometimes. lol. Note how I have to give a compliment with a cut down (it helps my self esteem). : ) When people are comfortable, it makes them want things to come easy. The focus on TM sold to PTSD of the military, the poor children and prisoners, is because those have public money behind them and someone wants a piece of it, but public money is going down the tubes with the economy. Self esteem building is a great way to market TM, as you suggest. Only one thing, those that are at the top, usually only get to stay at the top when others need hero's or rock stars, to honor and worship. If everyone felt better about themselves, who would worship those who recorded a song 50 years ago as a teenage boy except a bunch of screaming girls with low self esteem continuing into late adulthood? Marketability in the past has been based on this principal? You turq, have a wonderfully great idea that the TMO needs to take seriously. (You bad Buddha rubbing belly renegade, you.) Self esteem. TM can help poor children be content to being poor. A PTSD soldier feels content at all the carnage he has witnessed and participated in. The prisoner, a locked up yogi. A wealthy movie star has a tax write off and so on. If self esteem was always intended for the teaching of TM, it would be present in may other ways, including most of Fairfield's non dome attending mediators would be included in the WPA's and all and few would have their badges taken away. The pageant of ceremonial Raja's and the famous on display in TM, Look, we are great, do you want to be like us? You wish to gain just like your idols and we meditate and that is how we do it. (I am a TM meditator and I feel the Maharishi played a funny trick on his team of Rajas. I think the Maharishi was not happy with them, but needed them, but he knew he was getting old and closer to leaving the earth, and what better way to point out the obvious, was to dress them up in gold crowns and white robes (note the Indians don't wear them.)so we, real people doing the techniques with nothing to gain, but self esteem would see the difference. Sort of like, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, except Maharishi re-wrote the fairy tale a bit as he giggled knowing the knowers, will, Get it. I, get it. hahaha. If you ask most Indians in the movement about this, they would most likely roar in laughter and forever be your friend. : ) Because even if the self esteem is increasing for the average TMer, there is still a caste system in the TMO, of who has the biggest wallet. The government (public funding) appears to have the biggest wallet and that is why the PR companies are hired by the TMO to present this idea to the masses. Easy money and a tax right off. Self esteem building works well in the private sector, but they may lose non profit status and have to start paying taxes, but I am no expert in that subject or any. lol. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: The last week or so has been Viewer Hell for this cinema addict. I've had to wade through a number of TV pilots that I would never have spent a moment on if a potential client hadn't asked me to review them. It was a dismaying experience, but I think I learned something from it about how the TMO should pitch its one salable product -- basic TM. I actually looked forward to watching the first two episodes of Ringer, because it stars Sarah Jessica Parker, who I loved in Buffy. It had potential, in that it was actually SJP squared, playing twins. Sadly, it had an unimaginative plot, and was full of unhappy, unlikable, self-obsessed characters who between the lot of them couldn't come up with a thimbleful of positive self esteem if their lives (and their ratings) depended on it. As a TV writer, you should know you're in trouble when the only admirable character in your show is a former addict who now works as a NA counselor. Just sayin'. Then I watched 2 Broke Girls, memorable only for Kat Dennings' delivery of the punchlines of a series of low-rent sexual innuendo jokes. Again, it's a show that is all *about* lack of self-esteem...look at the title. Next came New Girl, starring Zooey Deschanel, which was the sole redeeming hour of the whole viewing experiment. Zooey is truly adorable, and this show puts her in the spotlight, pretty much carrying the whole series herself IMO, because I couldn't work up a bit of empathy for any of the other characters or actors. Fortunately, I think Zooey's up to the challenge, and this one may be a big hit. But, at the same time, Zooey's character is lack of self esteem incarnate. This poor self image is reflected back to her by her three male roommates (who have a Douchebag Jar into which they have to deposit money whenever they act like
[FairfieldLife] Re: Bad TV, and how the TMO should market TM
Meditators, correction replaces mediators. lol. I am my worst editor. : ) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: Very good review about TM and very great advice to the TMO! Precisely why I read your posts, even if some are long winded, sometimes. lol. Note how I have to give a compliment with a cut down (it helps my self esteem). : ) When people are comfortable, it makes them want things to come easy. The focus on TM sold to PTSD of the military, the poor children and prisoners, is because those have public money behind them and someone wants a piece of it, but public money is going down the tubes with the economy. Self esteem building is a great way to market TM, as you suggest. Only one thing, those that are at the top, usually only get to stay at the top when others need hero's or rock stars, to honor and worship. If everyone felt better about themselves, who would worship those who recorded a song 50 years ago as a teenage boy except a bunch of screaming girls with low self esteem continuing into late adulthood? Marketability in the past has been based on this principal? You turq, have a wonderfully great idea that the TMO needs to take seriously. (You bad Buddha rubbing belly renegade, you.) Self esteem. TM can help poor children be content to being poor. A PTSD soldier feels content at all the carnage he has witnessed and participated in. The prisoner, a locked up yogi. A wealthy movie star has a tax write off and so on. If self esteem was always intended for the teaching of TM, it would be present in may other ways, including most of Fairfield's non dome attending mediators would be included in the WPA's and all and few would have their badges taken away. The pageant of ceremonial Raja's and the famous on display in TM, Look, we are great, do you want to be like us? You wish to gain just like your idols and we meditate and that is how we do it. (I am a TM meditator and I feel the Maharishi played a funny trick on his team of Rajas. I think the Maharishi was not happy with them, but needed them, but he knew he was getting old and closer to leaving the earth, and what better way to point out the obvious, was to dress them up in gold crowns and white robes (note the Indians don't wear them.)so we, real people doing the techniques with nothing to gain, but self esteem would see the difference. Sort of like, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, except Maharishi re-wrote the fairy tale a bit as he giggled knowing the knowers, will, Get it. I, get it. hahaha. If you ask most Indians in the movement about this, they would most likely roar in laughter and forever be your friend. : ) Because even if the self esteem is increasing for the average TMer, there is still a caste system in the TMO, of who has the biggest wallet. The government (public funding) appears to have the biggest wallet and that is why the PR companies are hired by the TMO to present this idea to the masses. Easy money and a tax right off. Self esteem building works well in the private sector, but they may lose non profit status and have to start paying taxes, but I am no expert in that subject or any. lol. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: The last week or so has been Viewer Hell for this cinema addict. I've had to wade through a number of TV pilots that I would never have spent a moment on if a potential client hadn't asked me to review them. It was a dismaying experience, but I think I learned something from it about how the TMO should pitch its one salable product -- basic TM. I actually looked forward to watching the first two episodes of Ringer, because it stars Sarah Jessica Parker, who I loved in Buffy. It had potential, in that it was actually SJP squared, playing twins. Sadly, it had an unimaginative plot, and was full of unhappy, unlikable, self-obsessed characters who between the lot of them couldn't come up with a thimbleful of positive self esteem if their lives (and their ratings) depended on it. As a TV writer, you should know you're in trouble when the only admirable character in your show is a former addict who now works as a NA counselor. Just sayin'. Then I watched 2 Broke Girls, memorable only for Kat Dennings' delivery of the punchlines of a series of low-rent sexual innuendo jokes. Again, it's a show that is all *about* lack of self-esteem...look at the title. Next came New Girl, starring Zooey Deschanel, which was the sole redeeming hour of the whole viewing experiment. Zooey is truly adorable, and this show puts her in the spotlight, pretty much carrying the whole series herself IMO, because I couldn't work up a bit of empathy for any of the other characters or actors. Fortunately, I think Zooey's up to the challenge, and this one may be a big hit. But, at the same
