983 Reality TV

<p>It's an odd reality that people are starving for reality; everyone is so fascinated with Reality TV, it must be something fundamental to our ego & evolutionary development. People grasp that their own experiences aren’t matching what they've been told to expect: others don't act like the characters in books & movies; human interaction is fraught with hidden biases & resentments that no one ever talks about, and when they do, it's always about how someone else is at fault; and our inner feelings are dominated by guilt piled onto insecurity and laced with fear so we also don't speak about the shallowness & artificiality of everything either.</p> <p>People's expectations aren't meeting reality, so they are attracted to something that seems more honest & familiar, but even so-called reality TV is scripted; if it was real life, you'd see those people on TV taking psych drugs, having diarrhea, getting minor cuts, sleeping poorly, doubting themselves and spending long periods of boredom wasting their lives. When the cameras turn off, that's the real reality. The few people who do have their lives figured out seem alien and hard to meet, and none of them are ever on Reality TV.</p>