Reality TV --- how real is it?

I'm not a fan of reality television (with the exception of Idol). I detest the months when there's Big Brother on telly (it gets my vote for worst reality series). Unfortunately, if it's not Big Brother, it's America's next top model or Biggest loser or Wife swap or the Bounty Hunter....

Why do they call it reality tv? I, for one, think it's a misnomer --- how do you expect people to behave genuinely when they have cameras pointing at them??? Think about it, don't we all 'pose' for the camera when pictures are taken? In the same way, individuals on these reality tv shows pose for us...act for us.

Anyway, going beyong the genuineness of the people on these shows, I have another question to pose --- what do people get by watching these idiots on the shows? I may be generalising but I doubt there's one sensible, intelligent person worth watching on the aforementioned shows. Instead, we get to watch people fucked in the head (to put it simply). We get to watch model wannabes with severe eating disorders (if they are not anorexic or bulimic, I'm the next PM), with personality disorders. We get to watch people on Big brother with narcissistic personality disorders. And how about the loads of people that watch shows like Biggest loser to probably feel better about themselves???

It's ridiculous to watch where the television industry is headed. What makes it scarier is that they get the ratings, which could only imply that people are getting more and more sucked in by these shows. In short, it is a worry if this is where the human race is heading. In another 100 years, if this continues, the movie Idiocracy will be playing out for real.

And what's probably scarier, is that it's not impossible.

Until next time,

Cheers!!!