Campbell Live appears to cover things neither current, nor events. The housing market? The obesity epidemic? Sexual habits? Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't these topics been done before, at some stage?
And not only did I have to sit through one episode of 'fight the flab', apparently it's an 8-week-follow-up situation. How bloody, bloody boring. Haven't we got... um... at least 3 reality shows based on the same thing?
I thought CL might actually be hard-hitting interviews and new current events. There ain't too much controversey in 'House Prices: Invercargill Vs. Auckland - The Ultimate Grudge Match'. Nor in 'exercise more, eat less.'
A more interesting show could have contained the frightening upsurge in eating disorders among both men and women. Services in NZ are absolutely swamped. More and more guys are struggling with bulimia and steroid/thermogenic use. Girls are developing bulimia, anorexia and over-eating type disorders at record rates. They're getting sick younger and staying sick for longer (13 years for myself), and the death rates are going up disproportionately. If you have an eating disorder, there is a greater chance of dying from it now than 15 years ago.
I've heard a bit about that major earth/environmental report that was released a couple of weeks ago. Basically, it appears that we are screwed - we as in humans, not we as in planet. Human beings will drown wallowing in their own crapulence, as C. M. Burns would put it. So I've decided to stop worrying about it. I can do absolutely nothing to convince people to stop trawling the waning fisheries. Sugar companies do not care about one lone nut insisting that they should have raw sugar in paper, not plastic, bags.
I reckon this is the last couple of generations with a hope of a 'better' life than their parents. The enviornmental damage is not going to 'catch up with us' until it is really hurting us. And all those nasty little secrets (like the cubic tons of high-level nuclear waste) that we conveniently ignored for a hundred years or so is going to bite us on the ass.
After that, I reckon people and at least 75% of species will perish over a few hundred years.
What's your Friday Doomsday?
I think the last thing I heard was that we had 50 years left. The funny thing is I'll talk to people at work about this sorta thing and they make jokes about having to use boats if the icecaps melt. Also I heard that the US Govt is now saying it's too late anyway, so why bother trying to fix it.
Personally I think the problem is in the naming - Global Warming sounds nice. Oh it'll be a bit warmer in summer, how nice. Call it Cataclysmic Climate Change and I think you'd get a bigger reaction!
Posted by: Emba at April 8, 2005 02:50 PMOr, as Ray Patterson, Springfield Sanitation Commissoner: You're screwed. Thank you. Bye.
So long and thanks for all the fish...
Posted by: phreq at April 8, 2005 02:58 PMMaybe you should write to John Campbell about anorexia and offer to talk on his show about it? You could even promise to do something like cry or get angry or whatever it is he likes people to do when he interviews them in a hard-hitting way.
I've only seen a teeny bit of CL and it was when he was interviewing the lady who runs D-Vice. I have never seen him so uncomfortable. It was hilarious.
Posted by: Jenni at April 8, 2005 05:12 PMAccording to Naomi Wolf, it's estimated that 25% of women under 35 suffer from an eating disorder, whilst 70% have done at some point. I'd say that's got to be roughly equivalent to the proportion that are "obese". I use the quote marks because I think that the concept, as it relates to health, is so vague and ill-conceived as to be irrelevant.
Posted by: suraya at April 9, 2005 06:48 AM