15 Minutes + Greed + Loser – Talent = Reality Star!

I must admit that I find reality television to be the brain-food of idiots, douche bags, annoying imbeciles, dummies, the ignorant, the lame, and all those who voted for Bush the second time around (fool me once … )!

These pathetic attempts at entertainment all have the same predictable blueprints, there’s always drama being milked at the most appropriate moments (for them, not the viewer) and worst of all: it’s completely boring to any thinking person! I don’t get it … all the networks are running them nowadays: MTV, VH1 and TLC I slightly understand (they are well-known for crappy pop garbage) … but Discovery and History Channel? Whoa … never in a million years would I have imagined that they’d stoop this low for ratings! However, they did and I’m not really happy about it either …

The sooner this brain-dead programming comes to an end, the better. However, it’s not going to happen as long as viewers allow themselves to act like sheep and be easily manipulated (note: these shows appeal to those who buy their magazines at the grocery checkout counters). I, for one, am hoping and praying for an end to this nonsense, which is well beyond a joke at this point. Can’t this world see that these crappy reality shows are boring safe havens for untalented actors (including ex-celebs and their offspring) and the unemployable?

Why are these shows being crammed down our throats, you ask? Well, the simple answer is that they’re pretty cheap to make. You don’t have to pay a bunch of writers, and the so-called “talent” works for peanuts, quite literally! Then, if the show becomes a hit (with the ignorant) then these execs have just learned a successful formula in which to cookie cut from until its ultimate death cry. Now, if it fails, they’ll have twenty more shows, just like it, with a new host and a new name as a backup plan. What if the ratings fall dramatically? Then they’ll blame the damn scripted shows, of course. This plan of action is well-written in stone, so we as human-beings need to start wising up and breaking down those ill-intentioned walls that are turning us into retard sauce!

There are three huge reasons why reality TV has become popular today:

Loads of cash. TV execs offer big money to ding-dongs who don’t necessarily possess the career skills that would make them a productive enough member of society to gather such wealth through an honest day’s work. Put simply: dumb people get rich. This promise of wealth and the vicarious joy of someone making (or better yet: losing) tons of money is what draw millions of viewers.

Instant fame. Reality TV takes Type-As, sets them up in extraordinary situations on a world stage with their peers, and makes them the focus of a nation’s attention. Obviously, the majority of us will never be picked for these shows, but again the vicarious living concept takes over and latches onto the weakest in the herd. That’s why millions of idiots audition every year for a chance to participate (these weirdoes want their 15 minutes badly).

Guilty pleasure. Good taste should tell you not to watch this moral-envelope-pushing trash, but we seem to be living in a new age of public show-and-tell. In today’s society, with its massive technological revolution and our renewed interest in both free speech and the protection of the arts, more and more people are finding themselves being sucked into watching what would have been considered obscene just a short while ago.

People, we have become infatuated with the concept of personal wealth and property. We now only seem to care about how much we earn, what we can buy it with, and how fast we can get it. We willingly throw ourselves into debt by purchasing things (homes, cars, etc., etc.) we cannot afford, on credit that we know we don’t deserve, and in the end we super-size everything! This is a very dangerous cultural mindset to have, for a society supposedly founded on the dual ideals of respect and simplicity. In the long run, this greed and corruption will eventually sabotage our economy (unless we change, of course).

Stop this garbage now — it is pure trailer trash! Television programming is at an all-time low. It’s now all about, “How bizarre can we make it this week?” and, “What will the idiot minions do for a chance at fame and fortune today?” This type of programming is solely designed for the mindless masses (who have no life) and used for the dummying down of all mankind. If allowed to continue, this will cause the destruction of everything we believe in and cherish.

Thank you Brett Michaels, Flavor Flav (plus all your skanks who keep regurgitating your played-out formula [15 minutes (20 years ago) + another 15 minutes of crap = 30 minutes of the worst of the worst]) and all you other media whores out there: you proved to all of us that anyone (I mean anyone. NO brainwork included!) can be rich and famous as long as they’re willing to sell both their individuality and their soul for the crumbs off the corporate giants’ plates! Good luck with that … have fun telling your grandkids your sad, lonely story!