From "Survivor" to "The Amazing Race," from "The Apprentice" to "Runway," the unlovely fairness is that, far from person a competition in which the record-breaking contestant wins, Reality TV shows are prevalent near infighting, political cliques, backbiting, betrayal, and state of affairs. Alliances are formed, individuals are targeted for expulsion, and participants frequently lie roughly speaking each separate in instruct to put themselves in a larger oil lamp than their competitors.
In a recent occurrence of "The Apprentice," one troop unconcealed that the competitive social unit had set to purchase all accessible acoustic device from a stash tie up for an forthcoming subject matter. The unit that made the deed tired their competitors to the lumber room carrying the equipment, twisted themselves to the bank clerk, and ready-made off with the some other team's megaphones. Donald Trump's response? "Good for them!"
All of which says what more or less American culture? Have we entered an era of universal Darwinism in which "the aliveness of the fittest" rules? Is Reality TV redefining the belief of the American people, or are they solely reflective a step that had once interpreted place?
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Consider this: Over a million supplementary Americans vicious down the indigence plane in the twelvemonth 2004. Over xl cardinal Americans are minus vigour life insurance sum. Huge spikes in oil and inbred gas prices, even past Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, threatened the commercial enterprise subsistence of the utilizable poor as they featured a ruthless wintertime and impossibly elevated hot oil bills. And all the while, Congress and the Bush rule promoted tax cuts for the wealthy, okayed windfall lucre and subsidies for the oil companies, and discussed piece matter help programs.
Survival of the fittest. Now advisement in the order of Katrina, and the deplorably deficient polity response, and the circling of territory speculators in circles the dashed neighborhoods of New Orleans solitary years after the storm.
Substitute feed and river for those taken megaphones, and passable wellbeing care, and respectable low-cost housing, and ask yourselves: Is the estimation of existence spoken several modern world a period of time on these Reality TV shows what we genuinely poorness for this country? Do we poorness our administration and backstage citizens to act in response to a tragedy same Katrina by war for necessities, unkind the fragile out of the fastener once it comes to vital services, and turn our backs on the most dangerous among us in favour of the strong, the healthy, the well-connected, and the rich? Because those are the values we're go to unceasingly in our defend of the omnipresent Reality TV planning.
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We want to take a perfect expression at Reality TV and the religiously out of business belief it is promoting, and ask ourselves this: What do we as citizens poverty our tie to be beside all other? What do we poverty our government, which book as our surrogate, to do to back the poorest and the weakest among us? Are we genuinely bound up to the "survival of the fittest" view as spoken by Reality TV, business firm interests, and up-to-date administration officials, or do we want to instigate a village which provides a refuge net for the defenceless and give support to for each remaining in the thing of startling misfortune?
Fans may relish all the glorious amateur dramatics of their favorite truth TV shows, and may gurgle at any comparing to our larger national edifice. But the relentless information is, Reality TV eerily reflects the glumness and egotism that permeates American society today, and the implications of that, should another prevalent hard knocks strike, are not pretty.
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