Tv series and realities. What is real?

During class we were shown some extracts from some reality tv. I keep getting shocked by what entertains the average Joe and Jane. Scripted reality shows just overwhelmed my tolerance for idiocracy. Is this what we, as a society, have come to? I would love to think that the thirst for knowledge and understanding of the world around us would take us closer and closer to an Utopia. That which makes us thrive and pushes us to the edge, to experience, and to explore would make our species 'worthy' of the next step of our evolution. But instead, we are are diminished into nothing more than crazy gossip addicts. Drunken idiots fighting over who has the most 'game' or the best rant.

Which takes me to my next point. Either whomever makes, produces, pays, encourages this to be made, is either genius or insane. It's a very thin line after all.

I understand that drama and sex sells. Our western culture is manufactured specifically to what works best. So having any kind of situation involving people with enhanced (according to society's current take of beauty) physical characteristics will turn heads and turn on tvs/laptops/tablets and so on.

I think that sometimes society and those in control of the media are too fixated with what the world is and wants today, that it neglects to contemplate the two most meanigful words that have pushed the edges of the preestablished definition of our culture: what if. What if people actually do want to be better? What if people actually want to be better informed? What if people are honorable? What if they struggle with the crap that is offered to them? What if they want something more?

One can only hope, right?

Maybe, just maybe, one day we will become a better society. One of true understanding and acceptance. One that would 'see with eyes unclouded'.

No wonder Delight turned into Delirium.

(Yeah back at the Sandman thing, Seriously, Sandman is amazing. It has the right amount of crossover and mixed storytelling. I particularly love when Dream walks out of Hell after challenging Lucifer and Beelzebub.)

Ok. Back to reality. And onto reality shows. In my next post, I will describe the reality tv show that my teammates and me invented. Not surprisingly, its something about honor and knowledge.