Masterchef is a successful culinary program, a television recipe that works like baking. It is necessary to choose the ingredients carefully, follow the instructions to the letter, use top quality products and cook over low heat. To enter this program, in addition to knowing how to cook with some care, You need to have a story to tell, a profile to sell and some obvious reasons to cry and make the audience cry.
Masterchef looks for victims and, if not, creates them. We have said a few times, following the essential essay by Daniele Giglioli, that the victim is the hero of our time. There is a place in the hearts of the public for victims, there is a wild card that can be spent if you become a victim of something. However, we need an in-depth analysis of these victims because they are constantly being passed on to us.
There are false victims and people who use sensitive biographical moments as fuel to relaunch their lives or gain greater attention. It is necessary to separate the true victim from the one that is not so true because, otherwise, we are going straight to the gorge. On the other side of the screen there is also an army of sheep willing to defend the false victim without anyone asking them to.
There are false victims and people who use sensitive biographical moments as fuel to relaunch their lives or gain greater attention.
Last week, a contestant on the show decided to leave. She used the wild card of mental health and the weight of public opinion fell on the program and its judges. It turned out that it wasn’t a big deal, that it was all a show and that the contestant’s fatigue was within the norm. One of the presenters has appeared in a video of her with her explaining the details of the situation and trying to justify the details of the event.
Pedro Sánchez would be a great contestant for this cooking show. He also used the wild card of the emotional to then sell political propaganda. It is necessary to distinguish what is real mental health from a passing displeasure that goes on in office. In the end, the real victims lose, those who have an unsolvable problem, those who are in the middle of a serious conflict or in a complicated personal situation. Distinguishing the false victim is a complicated task, but it is going to become one of the essential duties of our time.
