The Best Laid Schemes.

It's Monday night in the west of Scotland and I have logged off my facebook. As is clear by my complexion and over all physique this is not something which I do regularly. However, a Monday night is over run with quotes from the BBC Scotland documentary series 'The Scheme.'

The Scheme is the lowest form of 'entertainment'. It's everything that is wrong with our modern society personified. We see people from a poor background, who are poorly educated being exploited by middle class film makers looking to make a quick quid at their expense.

Based on the facebook response to the scheme, it should be retitled: 'Poor people say the funniest things.' Does it make us feel better to look down on the poorest and most vulgnerable and sneer. Does it make us feel better to make jokes at the expense of those with drug problems? For a lot of the audience, the answer is a resounding yes. It does in fact make people feel better to know that they are better than other people. We could try to help these people? Nah let's just make a snide facebook group and see how many likes we can get.

These are real people, like us! They haven't got the chances that a lot of us have. From the moment they are born their social background dictates their whole. A repeat cycle of drug abuse, alcohol abuse and unemployment. Is this anything to laugh at? A pregnant 18 year old drug addict? A 20 year old drug addicted father? Would you laugh If it was someone that you loved? Would you want someone to laugh if it was you?

But let's bury our head in the sand and forget that these people are real. Let's just make jokes and post hilarious quotes they said because they never got a decent education.