Should The Studio C Sketch Don T Save The Whales

One of the greatest obstacles in the way of progressing and solving problems is placing the blame of those problems in all the wrong places. This phenomenon can occur on a variety of scales, from individual people and their personal problems to the issues that face entire societies. This obstacle is satirically displayed in the Studio C sketch Don’t Save The Whales, which shows members of a rally scapegoating and blaming everything wrong with their community on whales. Displaying how irrational and destructive unfairly placing the blame for problems is, the sketch also demonstrates how real problems go unsolved, new problems are created, and bandwagoning only makes everything worse. When people or communities pin the blame of their problems on others, they do not get any better themselves. Like blaming the whales in the sketch,
However that is exactly what happens when blame is put in the wrong place. While the sketch does not elaborate to much on the environmental consequences of a mass whale genocide, we can be sure that many harmful things will happen to the world without solving any of the problems attributed to them. The very fact that a rally assembles with weapons, almost leading to the death of the whale advocate by harpoon shows that tensions can rise when opposing groups disagree about something as serious as the source of society's problems. While this conflict is comedic when it's acted on a sketch comedy show, disagreements over who is to blame for deteriorating societies is enough to tear them apart, creating dangerous social, cultural and political divides. Even on a personal scale, relationships between people don’t thrive when one person is always putting down and blaming the other. Relationships require mutual understanding and sympathy, which is not encouraged by blaming and scapegoating the difficulties on each