We get acquainted with a lot of stories from watching them in TV and other media. We discover the elements of the stories and how these elements weave within a narrative towards an end. Ang mga stories na ito ay napaka makapangyarihan kasi we acquire their language, their goals, their purposes, etc.
Nakadevelop tayo ng construct na need natin siya.
However, puna ng isang author* nung 90s kaya daw natin gusto ang mga kwentong ito is dahil HINDI SIYA DEMANDING sa atin -- walang demand na buuhin ang kwento, sulsihin ang mga bahagi, pagsumikapan ang mga kailangang abutin. Nakaupo ka lang jan at nag aantay mag unfold ang kwento.
Our lives contain very similar (or even identical) na mga bahagi din ng kwento na nakikita natin sa mga teleserye atbp na ito. The problem is DEMANDING siya sa atin -- kailangan nyang mabuo, sulsihin, at pagsumikapan.
Kaso oftentimes we numb ourselves sa DEMAND na yan and we'd rather watch a flood of narratives on a screen and entertain ourselves to futility.
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* “Human beings are narrative animals: every culture countenances itself as culture via a story, whether mythopoeic or politico-economic; every whole person understands his lifetime as an organized, recountable series of events and changes with at least a beginning and middle. We need narrative like we need space-time; it’s a built-in thing.... The narrative patterns to which literate Americans are most regularly exposed are televised. And, even on a charitable account, television is a pretty low type of narrative art. It’s a narrative art that strives not to change or enlighten or broaden or reorient—not necessarily even to “entertain”—but merely and always to engage, to appeal to. Its one end—openly acknowledged—is to ensure continued watching. And (I claim) the metastatic efficiency with which it’s done so has, as cost, inevitable and dire consequences for the level of people’s tastes in narrative art. For the very expectations of readers in virtue of which narrative art is art.
Television’s greatest appeal is that it is engaging without being at all demanding.” quoted in Wyatt Mason, “David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model,” in Huffington Post; available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/01/david-foster-wallace-thou_n_631183.html
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