Reality of Reality Shows
Irrespective of the geographical coordinates, if one is fortunate or unfortunate enough to be suffering from a continual onslaught of the ‘idiot box’, one cannot avoid the raising-to epidemic-proportions occurrences of ‘Reality Shows’.
But every time one encounters an emotionally charged participant in a talent show, or rapidly turning into a millionaire player in a game show or personal but made public conversation of individuals of opposite genders in a dating show, it further thickens the mystery around the phenomenal success of reality shows- especially considering the fact that major proportion of this can conveniently be suspected to be unreal. Discounting the existence of fabrication would be akin to short-circuiting the intellectual facilities and the application of them in actions and conversations for an average individual. So for the sake of humanity’s collective grey cells, let’s hope that most of this is concocted.
That still leaves the puzzle of the presence of extremely involved audience, in gargantuan numbers, unresolved. Some light was shed on this mystery when an eavesdropped conversation sounded like the omnipresent gossip between two friends about the tipping of the weighing scales of a seemingly quickly prospering friend, which on further elaboration was found to be the discussion of the latest episode of a fitness reality show. The crux thus is that people like to talk about the lives of other people. So most of us load our daily conversations of bonding and small talk with who has done what, how and with whom. As if the planet has suddenly run out of acquaintances to gossip about we switch to individuals who open their emotions and behavior on national television for the world to analyze.
Those who swear by these shows would argue that some of these talent shows have catapulted ordinary individuals to the limelight and fame. But even if we assume that the surfacing of this touted latent talent is a reality, the frequency and proportion of it can be severely questioned, not to mention the dose of trivia that even these shows feed to the population whetting their appetite of meaningless verbal exchanges.
Like everything else even our intellectual capacities are developed with constant application, reflection and discussion of matter that challenges our mind so that one day we hope to generate virgin thoughts and milestone practices. We have two dogs in our mind – one that is commonplace, baser, and unfortunately ignorant while other is deep, intellectual and originative – all novelty and creation depends on which dog do we feed.
Irrespective of the geographical coordinates, if one is fortunate or unfortunate enough to be suffering from a continual onslaught of the ‘idiot box’, one cannot avoid the raising-to epidemic-proportions occurrences of ‘Reality Shows’.
But every time one encounters an emotionally charged participant in a talent show, or rapidly turning into a millionaire player in a game show or personal but made public conversation of individuals of opposite genders in a dating show, it further thickens the mystery around the phenomenal success of reality shows- especially considering the fact that major proportion of this can conveniently be suspected to be unreal. Discounting the existence of fabrication would be akin to short-circuiting the intellectual facilities and the application of them in actions and conversations for an average individual. So for the sake of humanity’s collective grey cells, let’s hope that most of this is concocted.
That still leaves the puzzle of the presence of extremely involved audience, in gargantuan numbers, unresolved. Some light was shed on this mystery when an eavesdropped conversation sounded like the omnipresent gossip between two friends about the tipping of the weighing scales of a seemingly quickly prospering friend, which on further elaboration was found to be the discussion of the latest episode of a fitness reality show. The crux thus is that people like to talk about the lives of other people. So most of us load our daily conversations of bonding and small talk with who has done what, how and with whom. As if the planet has suddenly run out of acquaintances to gossip about we switch to individuals who open their emotions and behavior on national television for the world to analyze.
Those who swear by these shows would argue that some of these talent shows have catapulted ordinary individuals to the limelight and fame. But even if we assume that the surfacing of this touted latent talent is a reality, the frequency and proportion of it can be severely questioned, not to mention the dose of trivia that even these shows feed to the population whetting their appetite of meaningless verbal exchanges.
Like everything else even our intellectual capacities are developed with constant application, reflection and discussion of matter that challenges our mind so that one day we hope to generate virgin thoughts and milestone practices. We have two dogs in our mind – one that is commonplace, baser, and unfortunately ignorant while other is deep, intellectual and originative – all novelty and creation depends on which dog do we feed.
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