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  • Big Brother’s guinea fowls (3)

    Big Brother’s guinea fowls (3)

    •Crusted corpses in DSTV/Multichoice’s garden of dirt

    Anto is a ‘grown ass woman’ who has ‘f..ked a lot of niggas.’ But ‘no one should take this personal,’ because she and fellow inmates in the Big Brother Nigeria-DSTV/Multichoice morality jailhouse are simply ‘having a good time.’

    It’s all a game, she reportedly said in a fit of sexual irresponsibility. Some mother gave birth to Anto. Some father sired her too. But whatever anyone thinks of her and fellow inmates, they are hardworking ambassadors of their families. Pride to their ancestry, it would seem.

    Anto and peers are tragic manifestation of the modernity curse; there is too much to be feared by their theatrics and the applause they excite from viewing public, mostly youth.

    Youth like Anto, Teddy A, who allegedly had sex with fellow inmate, Bambam, in a public toilet, are ‘wildly’ described as Nigeria’s future. Even though Teddy A’s moral compass led him to ‘appreciate’ Bambam by having sex with her in the toilet, soon after fellow inmates’ Miracle and Nina’s perverse sex, they are expected to succeed the incumbent ruling class.

    Picture Teddy A as Nigeria’s Senate President; Anto as the country’s first female President and Bambam, the alleged daughter of a pastor, as a governor, bank chief, pastor cum youth mentor.

    If the imagery scares you, wait till you read published commentary about inmates sexual ‘exploits’ in BBN’s controlled environment or jailhouse to be precise. Apologists of the show’s serialised pornography tirelessly spring caustic remarks in its defense: “But you are free to change the channel;” “Nigerians are hypocrites…they enjoy the show in secret and whine in the open,” they rail.

    In response to Teddy A and Bambam’s toilet escapade, a music producer reprimanded critics thus: “I am not even judging…You never use toilet before? Cast the first stone.” Some other viewer defended the duo claiming they engaged in simulated sex.

    Whether it is simulated or not, it’s wrong, subhuman perhaps, to have two adults go at it in a public toilet used by 20 persons, on live television.

    It is even more disheartening to read subtle rationalization of the BBN perversion by journalism’s supposed leading lights; so-called fiery critics of government and societal corruption mutate into DSTV/Multichoice’s lackeys or errand boys in real time. What do they seek? A seat at the broadcaster’s annual gala or movies award night?

    Kids are witnesses to BBN inmates’ perversions. They watch it on the internet and read frenzied reports of goings-on in the show by mainstream and new media.

    Desperate rationalization of the show however, ignore its imminent repercussions on society to focus on economics; BBN apologists drone about how lucrative it is. To whom? It’s the show’s producers and sponsors that pocket all the profit.

    Even its N45 million winner-takes-all prize is devilishly exploitative on participants who characteristically become fame junkies and commercial sex workers by the end of the show.

    They bend and break and distort into hideous forms in pursuit of the prize money. Such character is unworthy of young men and women persistently touted as Nigeria’s future leaders.

    At a time when the country needs young men and women of unimpeachable character to wrest leadership from predatory leadership, the country suffers the preponderance of degenerate youth.

    There is no gainsaying Nigeria thrives as a theatre of the absurd; where public officers frolic with and sexually abuse minors; where an elected governor feverishly seeks to impose his son-in-law as his successor in a state of supposedly free citizens; where a mystical snake swallows millions of naira from JAMB coffers; where lawmakers mortgage the interests of the state to fulfill their material lusts and nomadic herdsmen murder aged farmers, in order to take over their land as pasture for cows. The list is endless.

    Given that Nigeria’s federal government and broadcast regulators are enslaved to DSTV/Multichoice’s leash of ‘questionable incentives’ and touted ‘economic worth,’ the onus rests on parents, teachers and religious leaders to counsel their wards against indulgence in such gross contests as the BBN show.

    At the absence of media and government censorship, the only thing left is an appeal to reason. Contrary to widespread notions about the show, it is actually scripted reality, which makes it unreal and fraudulent in scope.

    Viewers believe that their votes count in selecting the winner. In truth, their votes never count. The show’s producers arbitrarily decide the winner of the prize money. And very few participants in the show go on to achieve their dreams of bliss. Most of the prize winners and runners-up squander whatever good fortune they earn by the show, in the long run.

    True, the prize money may increase annually, but it is often a ploy to arouse wilder depravity in the show’s participants; no one should be surprised if DSTV/Multichoice introduces homosexual, lesbian and transgender porn via LGBT participants in subsequent editions of the show.

    That day is coming; when it does, the media and government would turn a blind eye while the public claps in appreciation.

    If truly, the evolution and progress of a nation is determined by the nature of its youth, what do we make of Nigeria; where youths rush to have sex in DSTV/Multichoice’s serialised pornography?

    It’s an ugly reality for ex-BBN inmates outside its jailhouse. Anto, Teddy A, Bambam , Miracle, Nina and co will find life bleak and frustrating soon after they lose their pass to the red carpets. They will desperately lust for sustained media mention to no avail.

    In the BBN show, winners become famous and losers, almost famous; like past participants, some will become prostitutes, drug addicts and pitiful fame junkies. Eventually, they will burn out, unsung.

    Until then, swamped by adrenaline, wild ego and depravity, they will exult in DSTV/Multichoice’s fiery lava of grime. It’s ill-bliss which eventually disappears. In time, their names will resound as the crusted corpse’s muffled groans in a garden of dirt.

  • Big Brother’s guinea fowls (3)

    Big Brother’s guinea fowls (3)

    There is no gainsaying that DSTV/Multichoice, fulfills its role as pervert moulder and merchant of dark delight – alongside its contributions to employment generation, teeny philanthropy.  Like reprobate social agents, Nigerian managers of the satellite medium, adorn the tragedian cloak to watch society inflame and burn in the scorching blaze of the Big Brother Nigeria (BBN) ‘reality show.’

    Like a clever architect of sexual spectacle, the satellite broadcaster constructs the BBN house in the image of a brothel. The philosophy and theatrics that constitutes the house’s essence, reignites memories of Emperor Nero’s riverside brothels.

    Nero installed patrician women in the brothels to solicit him from doorways, DSTV/Multichoice installs degenerate males and females in the BBN house to patronise and feed it’s voyeuristic appetite. Nero tied his young male and female victims to stakes, draped himself in animal skin and leapt out from a den to attack their genitals.

    In similar fashion, makers of BBN perverse reality tie young male and female housemates to a monetary stake, adorn the cape of the voyeuristic Big Brother but lets the BBN inmates, led by inordinate lust for money and flesh, to  attack their own genitals – to the pleasure of Big Brother.

    Nero scandalised his army with his silk, jewelry, wild cavorting, degenerate pageants and parlor plays. The BBN masterminds ply the inmates with degenerate pageants, studio plays, wild frolic and rewards.

    Absolute power was the crutch by which Nero’s fantasies were actualised. The BBN masterminds wield absolute power over the show’s participants. Wielding the power, they stake the inmates to a leash of greed and make living theatre of their turbulent fantasies – that is, Big Brother and the ‘inmates’ reciprocal lust.

    In the BBN house, there is no void between wish and realisation; the moral and amoral. Fantasy morphs into instant visibility as DSTV/Multichoice markets sexual filth as ethical masque in its perverse reality. Thus DSTV/Multichoice, acting to provoke, scorn and arouse, removed the poetry and philosophy from theatre; it disrobes the media of the didactic cloak of ethics and high civilisation.

    At the backdrop of this violation and cultural rape of Nigerian society, the country’s social institutions and agencies of censure play dumb. The National Assembly, presidency, Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) and other social and moral agents conveniently lose voice.

    The status quo presages and appropriates the degeneracy that led to the fall of medieval Rome. Sexual irresponsibility, deceitful illusion and idealisation of mores, led to lassitude and inertness of Rome’s social institutions and ethical custodians. In time, individual Romans and groups mutated into a mindless mass and participant in an orgy of filth and cultural devastation. The Roman society simply mirrored the emancipated realities of the time, argued emancipated and sexually-uninhibited liberals of the time. The argument held until culture died, morals died, good became pariah and evil became the norm.

    As Spencer Kimball would say: “Had Roman parents assembled their children in their homes instead of the circuses and public baths; had they taught them chastity and honor and integrity and cleanness; would Rome still be a world power? Certainly it was not the barbarians from the north but the insidious moral termites within that destroyed the Roman world empire.”

    The story of the Nigerian society and its fascination with perverse civilisation thus projects the same weaknesses that left Rome disrobed of mores, helpless, disintegrated and dead. Our successes inspires extravagances and our lust for base amusement. In this osmosis of filth and rot, the Nigerian media abdicates its role as a social and moral agent.

    Journalists are supposed to be aristocrats of the spirit, projectors of the just, decent and humane. Not promoters, hustlers and salesmen for the high jinks and infamy of the debauched. Yet many a Nigerian journalist opts to fulfill roles characteristic of the latter.

    The contemporary media landscape has changed significantly thus affecting the nature of the press’ involvement in the construction of citizenship and cultural identities. There is no gainsaying that the Nigerian media is wholly perverted by this wave of change. Consequently, BBN show masterminds appropriate the functions of the media as societal watchdog and moral agent – particularly the reconstruction of citizenship and cultural identity.

    The agenda of the show’s producers isn’t quite difficult to detect. Its mission is to desensitize its teeming audience, particularly the youth, to base urges and primal instincts that renders brutes like the stray bitch and guinea fowl, the lower beasts that they are. Little wonder the BBN show thrives on its x-rated scenes: the shower hour and the party nights.

    The sexual antics of incumbent participants in the show repudiate moral and romantic notions of love, loyalty, decency and responsibility. The BBN reality show thus project flawed and debauched characters as worthy role models for the Nigerian youth to emulate.

    It’s all part of a grand plot: very soon, producers of the BBN show will introduce two homosexual males and  two lesbians into the show. Sex between the gay couples will be used to legitimize African homosexuality and desensitize Africans towards it. Of course, folk will scream, “Are they not part of our reality?” Of course they are.

    But while we all live with one secret perversion or the other, being human and humane requires sparing the society the horror of our base inclinations. The Nigerian society is already too permissive to a fault, we do not need DSTV/Multichoice, an unquestioning media and society to aggravate our situation.

    As Okwuanya Pius rightly notes, Mary Cover Jones’ desensitization theory as adapted by Joseph Wolpe, a South African psychologist, infers that when an individual or a group is desensitized towards an activity, they quickly move to another activity that will best hold their interest. He termed it “systematic desensitization.” Now that Africans, Nigerians in particular have been desensitized to voyeurism and random sex, the next stop is homosexuality and bestiality perhaps.

    Whoever wins the Big Brother Nigeria (BBN) sloth-fest will  become another living proof that decadence and idleness are preferable to decency and industry. Ordinary folk’s decadent fantasies of fame, success and fulfillment will be perpetuated and substantiated by the winner. Yet in the losers, the wildest fantasies of consequence-free infamy, sexual impropriety will be irreverently stoked by the media. The Nigerian media, perceived moral censors and social agents will amplify BBN and DSTV/Multichoice’s culture of filth and illusion. They will persuade us that the shadows are real.

  • Big Brother’s guinea fowls (1)

    •Making sense of DSTV/Multichoice’s perverse reality

    God is a taboo to DSTV/Multichoice, Nigeria. The Omnipotent Creator is cast in the same category of the dirtiest swear words by DSTV/Multichoice Nigeria. Thus any mention of ‘God’ in any movie or documentary is blurred, cancelled out, by the Nigerian managers of the digital satellite medium. But while it treats God as profanity, the satellite broadcaster celebrates random sex, consequence-free promiscuity, gender war, chaos, wild and subtle homosexuality, lesbianism, among others, as the finest of contemporary civilisation, courtesy its media fare.

    There is something about DSTV/Multichoice, Nigeria that rankles, like an ominous note. The satellite media broadcaster seem resolute in its quest to establish itself as a merchant of decadence and ill-bliss. And the Nigerian state fosters its debauchery by enabling it with lax laws and dormant regulations. Ever wonder why the Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) remains a paper bull-dog? It has been domesticated and placed on a leash by social agents, like DSTV/Multichoice perhaps. Tragic.

    There is no gainsaying DSTV/Multichoice, Nigeria manifests as a harbinger of amorality and cultural decline. It celebrates the kind of debauchery that led to the ruin of medieval Rome. Consider for instance, its ongoing Big Brother Nigeria (BBN) reality show. There is nothing to distinguish the BBN house from a henhouse except that the inmates seem human and yet endowed with the intelligence quotient (IQ) of the guinea fowl – if I may insult the poor animal by comparing it with them.

    However, despite the guinea fowl’s predilection to brutishness, it is not so completely unintelligent, mindless and brazen like the BBN house ‘inmate.’ Big brother, while showing them up as disposable lab rats, calls BBN contestants as ‘housemates’ but reality instructs that every participant in the Big Brother ‘experiment’ is captive to inordinate greed, poverty of the intellect and soul, lust for unearned riches and acclaim, and the ever domineering, voyeuristic, faceless “Big Brother.”

    Participants in the BBN show, like their counterparts world over, elevate narcissism and absurdity to unimaginable degrees. Inmates take their bath naked, knowing videos and images of their bath sessions are being broadcast to the world via digital satellite television. They indulge in reverse-intellectual chatter, unprotected and presumably consequence-free sex, disgraceful bickering, cutthroat rivalry and frittering away of precious time, just for the kicks of doing so.

    This further emphasizes the kindred spirit they share with the guinea fowl although the latter seem startlingly more sophisticated and elevated in character than the average BBN inmate. Guinea fowls hardly bicker because they are known to evolve and adhere religiously to a pecking order. The guinea fowl is a proud creature. Unlike the BBN inmate, it rarely mates in the open. You will seldom, if ever, see it breed. When it does, it’s super-quick and can be easily mistaken for a swift little scuffle.

    Wonder what the guinea fowl would think of BBN inmates like Bisola Aiyeola. Bisola effortlessly overwhelms defunct Big Brother reality show Nigerian inmates in notoriety without doubt. Perhaps at the end of the show, whether she wins the prize money or not, Bisola would claim she did her ancestors proud. Just like her predecessors claimed they did Nigeria proud at the show’s previous sloth-fests.

    Bisola generates a buzz by her actions in the BBN house. She has given a lap dance to a married man, engaged in smooching sessions with him and given her sexually rabid mate a blow-job meaning: Bisola Aiyeola has sucked on his penis till he orgasmed on live TV. Bravo.

    Wonder what Bisola’s mother would tell Bisola’s daughter. It would be priceless to hear her explain to her grand-daughter, why her mother had to frequently perform oral sex on a married man, on live TV. How will Bisola’s daughter explain to her classmates, class teacher and neighbourhood friends her mother’s wild sexual proclivities on TV?

    Bisola and crew sully the image of the contemporary Nigerian youth. They represent an abnegation of Dante Alighieri’s caution: “Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

    True, only brutes (animals) enjoy the exclusive preserve of ignorance and shamelessness in matters pertaining to sexual instincts, violence and other base impulses that relegate the brute to the bottom of nature and creation’s pecking order. However, current realities reveal an increasing permissiveness and blurring of lines between the human and the animal, the virtuous and debauched.

    While it’s disconcerting that the inmates’ parents and family see nothing wrong with their conduct, it would be amusing to know how they would justify the morality and benefits of going nude and engaging in a sexual acts before the camera and millions of viewers across the world, to their children and grand-children, when eventually their actions haunt them in their sober hours.

    Notoriety is the tool that Bisola and company seek to exploit in a desperate bid to win the much coveted N25 million BBN winner-takes-all prize. Notoriety is the resource by which they seek to attain wealth and acclaim. And even though many of them will fail in their bid except the only lucky inmate, they will all emerge from the show as celebrities. They will get movie deals, corporate endorsements, breakfast and dinners with Nigerian governors and senators, among other perks.

    Soon after booted she was booted out of the BB show, Nigerian newspapers swooped on a previous housemate, splashing syndicated interviews of the BB evictee across one or two pages, each story struggling to garner for her, unquestionable acclaim and soft-landing. She reportedly hoped to exploit the situation to her advantage: “If you guys watched Big Brother, you would be very sure that I can act,” she was quoted in an interview.

    Her statement, particularly her reference to her acting ability, no doubt revealed that the Big Brother show, contrary to its claims of being a social experiment that thrives on truth and reality, is actually a scripted TV show in which every participant puts up an act before the camera, as conditioned by the contest provisions and their frenzied lust for the outrageous prize money.

    Bisola and her fellow inmates seek to float upon “hype,” which is really the ubiquitous journalist turned publicist’s gas – and which is maniacally deployed oftentimes, to set afloat an image and personality that doesn’t quite exist. Hype, like Epstein aptly notes, is what gives us a new class or hierarchical categorisation of celebrities.

    To be continued…

     

    N.B:

    My attention has been drawn to a complaint by one of my readers, Tony Ademiluyi, over my piece, “Kayode Fayemi…The devil’s in his details (2).” He complained that that I used some of the things he said to me in a  personal chat about the column without due attribution. This is unfortunate. I deliberately left out his name and used his statement in quote, because I felt he might not like the negative publicity it may generate.

    “Agreed, many youths here have entitlement mentality but is it entirely their fault? Does the system give them room to turn their nightmares into dreams? I read Fayemi’s ‘Out of the Shadows.’ He left the country in frustration in 1989 because he was owed salaries in two places he worked – the defunct City Tempo magazine and another publication.

    “How many Nigerian youths would be privileged to have a wife with a British passport like he did? Many go there illegally or worse still by road. You need to read the chilling story of Uche Nworah, a former academic at the University of Greenwich who went to Germany by road. He (Fayemi) displayed crass insensitivity but such is life!”

    Some folk, Fayemi inclusive, would find several things wrong with this argument. But a lot of youth would agree with the reader/writer who penned the argument.

    That was exactly the way I used it. And the reader/writer who penned the argument to me in a chat on Facebook was “Tony Ademiluyi.” It was never a sad case of plagiarism. The omission, deliberate or not, is highly regretted.

  • Big Brother’s guinea fowls (2)

    The Chase” game show, she would have become a proud recipient of a $300, 000 cash prize, organized razzmatazz, inexplicable movie roles and corporate endorsement deals. But she didn’t win. Even though she had to get naked and engage in a sexual act in the bath with fellow “inmate,” South Africa’s Angelo Collins, to the delight and revulsion of the show’s teeming audience.

    Beverly didn’t win but she emerged from the house a heroine of sort. Her mother must be proud of her; the Nigerian society too. Thus her celebration by the print, broadcast and social media. A local newspaper reports that: “Beverly Osu made history by becoming the first BBA contestant that was never nominated for eviction since the inception of the African franchise of the television series in 2003. Twenty four hours after she arrived Nigeria, the BBA ‘The Chase’ finalist, Beverly Osu (sic) was rushed to Faith City Hospital, Oju Olobun Close, off Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. The BBA star was admitted for treatment due to a sprain ankle she suffered in the BBA house, a day to the finale…”

    Embellishments of the quoted report abound in mainstream media across the country. The message is clearly woven to arouse sympathy for Beverly, particularly amongst local moralist circuits. By endorsing her claim to celebrity status, the media confers on Beverly, the iconic image of a national heroine.

    Journalists are supposed to be aristocrats of the spirit, projectors of the just, decent and humane; not promoters, hustlers and salesmen for the high jinks and infamy of every middling creature with a narcissistic streak – yet many a Nigerian journalist opts to fulfill roles characteristic of the latter. So doing, a character like Beverly is projected as role model to millions of Nigerian youths.

    If Beverly had won, she would have become another living proof that decadence and idleness are preferable to decency and hard work. Ordinary folk’s decadent fantasies of fame, success and fulfillment would have been perpetuated and substantiated by her. Yet in her loss, these fantasies are irreverently stoked by the media, perceived moral agents who amplify reality TV’s culture of illusion and persuade us that the shadows are real.

    The contemporary media landscape has changed significantly thus affecting the nature of the press’ involvement in the construction of citizenship and cultural identities. There is no gainsaying that the Nigerian media is wholly perverted by this wave of change. The changes are evident in relevant parlances where prime time local and educational cultural content have been displaced by commercial and transnational media offerings like the BBA game show on TV. In the print media, pages that could be devoted to thrashing developmental issues and moving them to the front burner of national discourse and resolution are dedicated to promoting the agenda of international media companies like Endemol and the shenanigans of participants in its perverse entertainment and lottery offerings like the BBA.

    Consequently, BBA producers attempt to appropriate the functions of the media as societal watchdogs and moral agents – particularly the reconstruction of citizenship and cultural identity of a state and national community. The agenda of BBA isn’t quite difficult to detect. Although producers and fans of the show explain its depravity away as a realistic take and mirror of human behaviour; the Big Brother game show seeks to repudiate and destroy ancestral cultural norms and ethics of morality.

    Its mission is to desensitize its teeming audience, particularly the youth, to base urges and primal instincts that renders brutes like the stray bitch and guinea fowl the lower beasts they are. Little wonder the Big Brother game show thrives on its x-rated scenes: the shower hour and the party nights. These scenes are scripted to celebrate sexual freedom and irresponsibility but defenders of the show argue that there is no compulsion to view the scenes. Often times, they argue that since the show’s x-rated scenes are viewable only by subscription to VIP access via pay-TV, critics of the show have no justification.

    Of course such argument pales to reality: the fact that the show’s x-rated scenes and pictures are downloadable on the internet renders its apologists’ arguments invalid. As you read, impressionable minors of primary and high school ages across the country have easy access to BBA’s porn scenes.

    In the show’s recently concluded edition, Natasha, a BBA ‘inmate’ from Malawi masturbated before live audience, while having her bath. Of course she knew she was being broadcasted to millions of viewers worldwide and therefore, endeavoured to put up an excellent performance for her voyeuristic audience.

    Pan over to Beverly and Angelo; the latter who had a serious relationship with his fiancée back home in South Africa, indulged in steamy smooch sessions in the bathtub with Nigeria’s Beverly thus repudiating moral and romantic notions of love, loyalty, decency and responsibility. Sierra Leonean Bolt who was actually a husband and a father and Betty, an Ethiopian School Teacher equally put up a daring bathtub performance, similar to Beverly and Angelo’s.

    With such characters in the house, BBA’s “The Chase” successfully projected flawed and debauched characters as worthy role models for the African youth to emulate. It’s all part of a grand plot: Endemol’s Big Brother, having identified Africa as yet a virgin territory for defilement seeks to infest her with perversions from the west even as it stirs up and legitimizes similar but latent perversions that has so far being curtailed by the African continent.

    Very soon, producers BBA producers will introduce two homosexual couples – male and female – into the show. Sex between the gay couples will be used to legitimize African homosexuality and desensitize Africans towards it.

    As Okwuanya Pius rightly notes, Mary Cover Jones’ desensitization theory as adapted by Joseph Wolpe, a South African psychologist infers that when an individual or a group is desensitized towards an activity, they quickly move to another activity that will best hold their interest. He termed it “systematic desensitization.” Now that Africans, Nigerians in particular have been desensitized to voyeurism and random sex, the next stop is homosexuality and bestiality otherwise known as sex with animals perhaps. Who knows? African youths, Nigerian youths in particular, may yet revolt against established norms and demand the institution and legitimization of incest.

    Eventually, human beings become a commodity in celebrity culture. Poor, unemployed and desperate youths learn to fantasize and obsess about chancing on unearned acclaim and affluence. Beverly, in perpetuation of this reality is objectified by her performance in the BBA game show. Like every other participant in the game show, she has become an object like consumer products. But celebrities like consumer products have no intrinsic value.

    Very soon, she will be subjected to the inescapable debasement of the currency of celebrity: the impossible illusions inspired by BBA’s celebrity culture and perpetuated by the media to substantiate her glaring insignificance will soon begin to pale away. But unlike many a consumer product helplessly caught in depreciation, Beverly will beg for more. And the Nigerian media will continue to aid her simply because it’s hip, lucrative and socio-politically correct to do so. The society will be worse for it.

    To be continued…