TV is a wasteland. There is little doubt. But sometimes even TV will slam into something powerful and thought provoking. When one looks thru the blather to see what is revealed within....this can be big stuff.
I feel this is true for a reality program called "Beauty and the Geek". THIS is thought provoking.
This event is staged with ravashing young women who have made their way in this world based on their looks. Then they are paired with young men who are the classic "Geek", (Trekkys - Computer Nerds - Sword and Sorcery types). They then compete in various trials which play against type. The Geeks are challanged on fashion, social skills and "girl stuff". The girls are challanged on intellect and "boy stuff".
Watching the interplay twixt these groups (which carefully avoid each other in real life) is most revealing.
One of the things that stands out for me is how perfectly this event confirms the old saw....
Power corrupts
We see, perfectly, how (especially for women) beauty is power and that for everyone - power corrupts. So many of these girls have been actually devastated by the corrosive effects of their looks. In some cases the woman inside was made as repulsive as the outer woman was attractive. This plays in bold relief against the unwieldy geeks.
But it seems there are untold life lessons revealed in this program.
Any other observations on the lessons revealed in Beauty and the Beast; or of the nature of the corruption of power in our individual lives?
An ascendant man, living in a degenerate age, MUST, by definition, live in contradistinction to his times.
