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Reality TV

Nowadays, the television landscape is peppered with so-called "reality shows". They range from your run-of-the-mill dating shows that never work out but you can't stop watching, to your Jackass type shows were guides make complete idiots of themselves. I think I have figured out why the general public is so fascinated with these kinds of shows. Simply, all of us are insecure. We will do absolutely anything to feel better about our own lives. We just love to sit back in the comfort of our own living rooms and say things like, "thank goodness that's not me," or "I wouldn't be that stupid.

I'm not writing, as the voice of moral superiority. Far from it, I still have succumb to this type of behavior. Why, just tonight I was watching the long-running show Cops. Tonight's episode featured an especially compelling storyline of two best friends, one male and one female. The female the row her mail continues cell phone out the window of her car after she caught him texting another girl. Apparently, they were friends with benefits. Then, her "best friend" got out of the car and proceeded to launch a brick at her window. Then, I guess she tried to run him down with her car. To make a long story short, they both ended up being charged with disorderly conduct. After this vignette was over I downed my fork into another canned pear and said, "I would never be that stupid."

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