http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/reality-tv/ Understanding politics from the left, right, and center Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/reality-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-1765 Dan Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:04:56 +0000 http://samueljscott.com/?p=2992#comment-1765 People have always exhibited antisocial tendencies. Check the Torah - one member of the VERY FIRST set of brothers killed the other. Or even further than that - when God asked who gave them the fruit of the tree of knowledge, Adam immediately - and I mean IMMEDIATELY - sold out Eve, saying, "It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it." So from the beginning of time, people have been lying to each other, betraying one another's trust, and killing one another. So-called "reality" TV merely groups people together that are likely to obviously exhibit such behavior, artificially modifies situations to create such behavior, then edits the available footage to maximize the impact of such behavior. This, of course, is why I don't watch those types of shows. People have always exhibited antisocial tendencies. Check the Torah — one member of the VERY FIRST set of brothers killed the other. Or even further than that — when God asked who gave them the fruit of the tree of knowledge, Adam immediately — and I mean IMMEDIATELY — sold out Eve, saying, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.” So from the beginning of time, people have been lying to each other, betraying one another’s trust, and killing one another. So-called “reality” TV merely groups people together that are likely to obviously exhibit such behavior, artificially modifies situations to create such behavior, then edits the available footage to maximize the impact of such behavior. This, of course, is why I don’t watch those types of shows.

]]> http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/reality-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-1760 Sam Scott Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:46:43 +0000 http://samueljscott.com/?p=2992#comment-1760 Exactly. I don't have an answer, either. Did the marketers of reality television see an aspect of society that would respond well to the genre, or did they market in a way to create a desire in viewers that people did not have before? Exactly. I don’t have an answer, either. Did the marketers of reality television see an aspect of society that would respond well to the genre, or did they market in a way to create a desire in viewers that people did not have before?

]]> http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/reality-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-1742 Jeff Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:01:33 +0000 http://samueljscott.com/?p=2992#comment-1742 Society affected by art, or vice-versa? The age-old question remains unanswered. Society affected by art, or vice-versa? The age-old question remains unanswered.

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