Soap Culture

Soap operas are a popular form and can bring enormous entertainment and more importantly support and education to their followers. centred on soap operas and presumably important to sustain dramtic tension and audience interest are the emotional aspects of assorted life situations. This emphasis on the need for emotional demonstration in a drama seems to have spread into real life to an enormous degree and not ina healthy way. We now have increasingly, on important issues in real life persons in the public eye being constrained to make public demonstrations of emotion which we must suppose they do not necessarily feel. At every tragedy we must its seems have tears and at every triumph cheers. Persons in public life cannot be expected to do this with more than a passing gesture to sincerity. And so public life becomes more of a charade daily. Today, for example we had a judge handing down sentences for murder and homicide having to pause and choke back tears. That is taking things too far. We all have our own feelings and those in the public eye cannot be expected