In article <mailman.0.1374146636.25298.genbrit@rootsweb.com>, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com says... > <snip> > Can these luvvies > really be so naive as not to realise that the world was a very different place > 100 and more years ago and that trying to judge things that happened long, long > ago by a mindset of modern values is simply plain stupid? They are actors - paid to produce the reaction that will appeal to the audience as defined by the program producers. The other thing is they will need to be aware of the way the press would report it if they were to appear "heartless and uncaring". -- BobC ========== Change "null" to "news" in reply address.

On 19 Jul at 9:59, BobC <calverb-null@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > In article <mailman.0.1374146636.25298.genbrit@rootsweb.com>, > roy.stockdill@btinternet.com says... > > > > <snip> > > Can these luvvies really be so naive as not to realise that the > > world was a very different place 100 and more years ago and that > > trying to judge things that happened long, long ago by a mindset of > > modern values is simply plain stupid? > > They are actors - paid to produce the reaction that will appeal to the > audience as defined by the program producers. > > The other thing is they will need to be aware of the way the press > would report it if they were to appear "heartless and uncaring". Thoroughly agreed. Actors are expected to pretend to thoughts, actions and emotions that are not theirs, so who are we to be surprised if they continue to do their day job when they are interviewed? It may even be that the producers encourage them to do exactly that. Such thinking of things as they are not is sometimes known as lying but is also the core of the greatest human creativity, so much so that if we could not 'lie' we would never have made the progress in civilisation, art and technology that we glory in today. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

On 19/07/2013 09:59, BobC wrote: > In article <mailman.0.1374146636.25298.genbrit@rootsweb.com>, > roy.stockdill@btinternet.com says... >> > > <snip> >> Can these luvvies >> really be so naive as not to realise that the world was a very different place >> 100 and more years ago and that trying to judge things that happened long, long >> ago by a mindset of modern values is simply plain stupid? > > They are actors - paid to produce the reaction that will appeal to the > audience as defined by the program producers. > > The other thing is they will need to be aware of the way the press would > report it if they were to appear "heartless and uncaring". > > One problem is the cynics on some forums cannot believe that any actor can ever have genuine emotions and that any tears are faked. Many of them can't believe that anyone can be moved by sad facts about ancestors who they never knew but I am sure most of us have shed the odd tear when finding out things about ancestors.