"It's not that I envy the billions being raked in
annually by the "reality" industry (if the viewing audience is
willing to watch, then God bless the folks who sold them what they
could see for free if they left the house ;), I just find it silly
and distracting. When I want to go see people getting arrested by
cops, I go downtown and hang around outside nightclubs ;)
"I remember (and this debate still rages today) when I was
growing up hearing a lot of nonsense about kids not being able to
separate fantasy from reality, that Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne
were responsible for numerous teenage suicides and the increasingly
graphic violence in movies and on TV was responsible for increased
violence in the real world. I've always found these arguments
ridiculous and, generally, riddled with logical fallacies. Judas
Priest and Ozzy never made me feel like offing myself, although
there were several moments during my childhood when The Carpenters
brought me about as close to the edge as I've ever gotten ;) And
toning down pretend violence won't stop, or discourage, the real
violence going on in the world today."
