HOLLYWOOD, WHAT’S THE VALUE OF A HUMAN BEING?

What's the value of a human being?

This could be a tricky question. 

If we take into account only the human body, its parts, organs, fluids, metals, etc. the price could go from 45 million dollars to l,200 million dollars.

That is what we are in material terms.

But if we take into account the human being, not its body, but its intelligence, ingenuity, multiple capabilities, actions, initiatives, contributions to society, etc. then we can’t measure that in terms of dollars. This consideration escapes that narrow frame.

All will come to recognition and appreciation of a human being as such, and his/her role in society.

Regretfully, for the “creators” of Hollywood, those who write scripts for TV series and movies, the value of a human being is near zero.

A human being for them is someone that could be destroyed psychologically or killed physically in the most horrible ways.

I don’t give them a great value as human beings, because they are empty of the best qualities a human being could have as such.

Hate, revenge, violence, destruction in spectacular and unimaginable ways are the only ideas they have in mind.

Really they are sick people. They and their products should be repudiated.

A healthy society shouldn’t allow them to use TV and movies, games, language and other ways of communication to share, broadcast, sell and expand that insanity.

But –in what I personally consider a bad and distorted use of the freedom of expression—these people are allowed to be in charge and to make you feel that you are nothing.

That your value as a human being is nothing.  

That you don’t count, after all.

I can't but repudiate strongly and from the bottom of my heart such an approach and such a way of thinking and doing of those so-called “creatives”.

It's time for Hollywood to offer something better. Something really human, something that enhances values instead of something that systematically destroys them.

When we approach the Oscars, would Hollywood take into account the question of the value of a human being?

Milton W. Hourcade

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