REALITY CHECK
Do you ever get the impression that you're life is so mundane compared to everyone else's on this godforsaken planet?... I'll tell you why.... It's because of the false image of what life should be like that's being fed to us through television.
When television first started out, it was for people to escape into a fantasy world... Example... You come home from work, you want to relax after supper and put your feet up and turn on the tube so you can watch the Fonz get Richie Cunningham and his friends out of another mess that they got their selves into... You could go back even further and it would be shows like Leave it to Beever or Gilligan's Island that would take your mind off a hard days work... In short, people used television to get away from their boring day to day lives. But most people knew that it was all make believe. And I do say most, because there were and still are a few freaks out there who thought the Fonz really did exist. And even then, as innocent as these shows seemed at the time, they did brainwash us into believing that in order to be accepted by everyone else in life, you need to get married and have half a dozen kids and a maid to clean up after you while you sit around doing nothing just like the Brady Bunch.
Now what do we have on TV? American Idols And Rockstars, Survivors and Amazing Races, Big Brothers and Surreal Lives and they call this "Reality TV"... Now people are coming home after work to kick back, relax and watch someone else's more glamorous life wishing they could spend a day in their shoes. To all the people out there who think this is "Reality", excuse me for bursting your bubbles, but nothing you see on TV is real... It's all scripted. Do you really believe the "Big Networks" would let people do what they want on television. If you do, then you're more gullible than I thought. Hell, even Jerry Springer admitted that 80 or 90 percent of his show is fake... It's kinda weird when you think of it (and I don't mean weird in a good way)...
Reality TV is turning us all into a mindless culture that wants to experience life without living it.
Do you ever get the impression that you're life is so mundane compared to everyone else's on this godforsaken planet?... I'll tell you why.... It's because of the false image of what life should be like that's being fed to us through television.
When television first started out, it was for people to escape into a fantasy world... Example... You come home from work, you want to relax after supper and put your feet up and turn on the tube so you can watch the Fonz get Richie Cunningham and his friends out of another mess that they got their selves into... You could go back even further and it would be shows like Leave it to Beever or Gilligan's Island that would take your mind off a hard days work... In short, people used television to get away from their boring day to day lives. But most people knew that it was all make believe. And I do say most, because there were and still are a few freaks out there who thought the Fonz really did exist. And even then, as innocent as these shows seemed at the time, they did brainwash us into believing that in order to be accepted by everyone else in life, you need to get married and have half a dozen kids and a maid to clean up after you while you sit around doing nothing just like the Brady Bunch.
Now what do we have on TV? American Idols And Rockstars, Survivors and Amazing Races, Big Brothers and Surreal Lives and they call this "Reality TV"... Now people are coming home after work to kick back, relax and watch someone else's more glamorous life wishing they could spend a day in their shoes. To all the people out there who think this is "Reality", excuse me for bursting your bubbles, but nothing you see on TV is real... It's all scripted. Do you really believe the "Big Networks" would let people do what they want on television. If you do, then you're more gullible than I thought. Hell, even Jerry Springer admitted that 80 or 90 percent of his show is fake... It's kinda weird when you think of it (and I don't mean weird in a good way)...
Reality TV is turning us all into a mindless culture that wants to experience life without living it.
posted by Alien-8 at 1:30 PM
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