"Bridalplasty: The New Reality Show That Proves We're Doomed"

[kane_magus]

This is why I haven't watched TV at all since 2005.

"There's a divide in the world's population. For every decent human being, there are three soulless, terrible human beings. That is a fact. The kind of women who won't go on television and fight a bunch of gown-clad she-Wookiees instead of buying a goddamn gym membership is outnumbered in this world by the kind of women who will. There's a nation of awful people living among us, people incapable of experiencing empathy, but people who are acutely aware of how to illicit empathy in others. They use our emotions against us because they have no morality. Of this nation of people, there's a sub-nation full of the worst of the worst of that group, the bottom-of-the-barrel, where even the barrel itself is toxic. This group isn't satisfied with just not having morals, they want to challenge the idea of morality for the rest of us and test the limits of our collective decency.

And that group of people is in charge of green lighting new reality television shows every year."

Comments

[hikarugenji.livejournal.com]

Although I still think even a show like that is better than bear-baiting, cockfighting, roman glaidators, and such.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

This is probably just about as close as TV can get to those kind of things without crossing the line, assuming there even is a line there to cross. I wouldn't doubt that there are people even now who'd love to make a reality TV show based on gladiatorial combat if they could get away with it, or that there are other people who'd jump at the chance to be on such a show, even at the risk of almost certain death. There would definitely be plenty of people willing to watch such a show, that's for sure. Luckily, there are laws against such things, at least for now. ^^;

I guess one thing the reality shows have going for them is that all of the participants actually choose to be there. That is more than can be said for the bears, roosters, or even most Roman gladiators. Not quite sure if that makes it better or worse, though. ¬_¬