Sibusiso has hit the nail on the head. Really, there's no use saying "soapies are good because they employ people" - a whore house also employs people!
Don't soapies get their name from "soap operas" - first radio and then tv afternoon dramas to "entertain" bored suburban housewives? Aren't they called after soap because the industry that manufactures soap products realized that repetitive advertisements helped their sales? Of course broadcasting corporations love these "soapie things" because they bring in big advertising money but of what really value are they to a society? Maybe it's like bubble-gum, just a habit but of no nutritional value. So why not have actors employed to reveal some of the dramatic history of the continent? Why not teach something of value and entertain as well? Castro is correct to bring up this issue - it relates to being conscious of what is happening around us. The bourgeois don't like to be criticised and i assume that's the reason for reaction. On Jun 16, 7:38 am, sibusiso Mchunu <[email protected]> wrote: > to ban or not to ban > > what is needed is to swell the ranks within the industry and have our own > creative writers of our stories that will reflect our past, present and > future. as long as we have writers of these stories who's background is > suspect it will always reflect on the screens. what we see on TV is the > mirror image of the thinking of the owners of means of production. therefore > we need to participate fully from the writing of scripts to the final > product. we can not just ban but we can transform this industry to be what > we want it to be. > > Culture and religion ideology is part of the society orientation. its when > we take part in it meaningful that we will holistically realise socialism in > our life time. to ban or not to ban is not an issue, just like our economy > is still in the hands of a few, we need to transform it.period. > > we need to to advance the artistic of our nation in the correct way , in the > past we had Bopha's, Asinami's and other artistic stories which reflected > the epoch, same appliers to the Sopies and other stories we see on TV. we > need to vigorously play a role, constructively. these actors, writers and > producers are our own brothers and sisters, we need to help them > ideologically but most of it all own these productions, be able package it > in a right way. > > On 6/12/09, Castro Ngobese <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > *Soapies perpetuate inequality* *12 June 2009 > > FRANK TALK - Castro Ngobese > > * > > ------------------------------ > > > SOAPIES suck! Despite this majority of South Africans, in particular the > > youth, are in love and obsessed with soapies such as Rhythm City, Scandal > > and Generations. What role do these soapies play in our ongoing critical > > task of building a society envisaged in the Freedom Charter? > > > What are we, as the youth , doing in contesting the capitalist social > > life that is being implanted or transmitted to our people on a daily basis > > by the SABC and e.tv through soapies? > > > We need to vigorously respond to such questions, within the broader > > political frame of building a Freedom Charter-based society and ultimately a > > socialist society. > > > Even the Freedom Charter does not devote a single sentence to the > > transformation of the media. That in itself is alarming. > > > The Nationalist Party government and its ideologues made use of the media, > > particularly the SABC, to inject or transmit to society their racial and > > social-engineering message to the minds people . > > > It is undeniable that we live in a new epoch and terrain. > > > We need to use the media to bolster and reinforce the kind of society we > > are building. > > > Marxism teaches us that soapies are programmes created for the elites for > > their own enjoyment and amusement. > > > Their core function is that of reinforcing capitalist logic and morals > > which are necessary for the reproduction of a dog-eat-dog society. > > > This then helps to maintain the status quo which bolsters the dominance of > > the ruling class. > > > This means that soapies that are being flighted on our television screens > > on a daily basis are meant to defocus the working class and the poor youth > > from the primary struggle – the class struggle. > > > The ruling classes are using the SABC and e.tv as a communication tool to > > suppress and defocus the working class youth from their fundamental struggle > > and immediate demands. > > > Marx saw an analogy between ideas purported or transmitted via the media > > and the processes that typify its social order. Thus in the German Ideology > > he illustrates how the ruling class uses organs of class rule to buttress > > their hegemony . > > > The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas ... as > > they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch. > > > It is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other > > things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the > > production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are > > the ruling ideas of the epoch. > > > One wonders if we did not have soapies would we have people like Khanyisile > > Mbau. Mbau is a classic depiction of the false world promoted by these > > soapies. > > > *Castro Ngobese is the spokesperson of the Young Communist League .* --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. 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