In the Culture section, we rightly praised the success of Sylvie Lussier and Pierre Poirier on popular television. We discuss the inordinate love of television by Quebecers and their propensity to react to the narrative as if it were real life.
Thus, we write to the authors, via social networks (what else), our joys and our disagreements about events which only existed on the screen.
Should we really be proud of this enthusiasm on our part to start believing, in front of a television (or other screens), that everything we see is better than reality? Proud also to see the range of magazines which mainly deal with what happens to actors in their fictional adventures? While we offer our gaze to what too often resembles a smoke screen, reality, as natural as social, takes a nasty blow, because we are not there to perceive it and react accordingly, nor in front of its degradation nor in front of its beauty. As the philosopher Günther Anders said, television creates mass hermits. Everyone is looking at the same thing, but alone in front of the syncopated light of their screen.
It would be illusory to think that this phenomenon is truly “unifying” and if it is, in front of the coffee machine at the office, it has become a sort of echo chamber where everyone saw the same Super Bowl, the same Show of Everybody talks about it or the same current reality TV show, one would have to ask what’s the point.
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