Drama

You know how there's a lot of dramas on TV. Like Korean dramas that my mum and sis LOVE to watch. Like the indonesian drama my bro ADORES. The mss culture industry is really drilling into us these senarios that happen in dramas. Such that what Adorno and Horkhiemer's claim that imitation is absolute is coming true. That real-life is becoming indistingusihable from the shows we watch. Propagting the illusion that the outside world is the straightforward continuation of that presented on the screen. That's why I hate dramas. Because it seems that I'm living in one. While some may face drama at work or school and come back home to a cosy, comfortable sanctuary called home, I go to school to study and come back home to the "LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION" of drama. And it sure seems to me that I'm one of the villains and the hero is sure darn lazy to take charge and change things.

However, I still agree with Stuart Hall. He posits that the audience, us, can take on different positions in relation to the messages shoved into our faces. First, accepting and replicating the preferred code of message. Second, negotiating and modifying the message. Third, a global negation of the preferred code. I'm not going to take up the first position. I'm likely to combine both the seond and third position. Let see how it works out. 

Ya Allah, give me the strength to make things right. Kadang kala, aku tidak mengetahui mengapa perkara sebegitu berlaku. Adakah itu kesalahanku? Mengapa aku sering dipersalahkan? Dengan itu, akanku selalu berdoa meminta dorongan and pertolongan daripada Yang Maha Esa. Hanya kepada Engkaulah yang kami mohon pertolongan. Insya-Allah.

~Salam~