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I'm with everyone, in detesting "Reality TV".
I read Niel Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (brilliant and highly recommended) in college and much of it really "STUCK" with me.
It focuses on the causes and affects of Television and communication mediums in general with social evolution...
Written in 1985, with many projections and predictions that could now simply be read as "History", one of the "absurd" predictions according to some critics was that eventually people in our society would be more interested in watching their neighbors or strangers go through their daily mundane lives, than to simply live their own. Perceiving it as "Entertainment"...
Absurd,?.. Ridiculous?, Stupid?... Maybe.. but now FACT!!!
We (general society) appreciated "Watching someone else experience life more than we actually appreciate experiencing it ourselves"
The fact that millions of people will sit down for hours a day to simply watch other people buy groceries, fix dinner, talk with family etc.. is Horrifying.
He was simply right.. And that was pre Internet Reality......
But there was ONE TV Show that was worse than all others .... EVER..
Super Bowl XXV.
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