Television is entertaining. It makes us forget about our troubles momentarily and we can zone out and pretend that our lives have been put on pause. I understand why we watch it and I do the exact same things as well. After a long, strenuous day there's nothing like putting your feet up and escaping to your favorite TV show, movie or documentary. Reality shows, though is where I draw the line. This concept infuriates me because the entire world is obsessed with it. They're practically drooling for more.
I cringe when I see the ratings for shows like The Hills or Jersey Shore. Why are these ridiculous people getting paid more than doctors and scientists to get wasted and have sex with as many people possible? Oh wait... that's right!!! It's all on camera. So now everybody is making sex tapes and exploiting their children for money and fifteen cheap minutes of fame. How classy!!! Today's generation is growing up to an endless stream of garbage and loss of self-worth by watching television. Is it really that interesting to watch people fools of themselves in front of the whole world? Who cares if rich girls from the OC are doing meth and sleeping with their best friend's boyfriend? This is brain damage people. Watching this probably kills as many brain cells as taking a handful of Vicodin. Even the Internet floods us with pictures of Lindsay Lohan drunk night after night after... blah, blah, blah.
Instead of living vicariously through these sad people why don't we just get off the couch and go live our own realities?
Till next time...
It is almost the train-wreck syndrome. Where there is a train wreck, people want to go see it. Lots of train wrecks going on there.
ReplyDeleteThe word "Reality" in Reality Show is an oxymoron. Most people don't realize that these shows to one degree or another are pretty well scripted. Once you know that, most of them kind of lose their 'zing'.