I have come to realize...

Reality TV is our society's version of the Roman Gladiator matches and Christians being fed to lions etc.


In the olden days people used to go to the Colosseum to see torture and humiliation. Today people just watch tv hoping to see a horrible American Idol get berated infront of millions of viewers or some Real World room mates fight over who does the dishes... these people are not physically hurt the majority of the time but emotionally and psychologically destroyed or they thrive off of such drama and this sickens me even more, to the point where I long for the days of painful deaths and torture for all of those involved.


Your thoughts....

Have i got this wrong?

I think you said - Roman humiliation/torture is comparable to game shows today that emotionally and psychologically destroy people, but you wish for a time when these people suffer painful deaths and torture?

You want the emotionally and psychologically abused physically toutured? :-\

I think he wants the emotional abusers to be horse whipped and fed to the Lions.

For his own enjoyment of course ;).:-\which could make him an abuser of sorts.


So far we have the abused,the abusers and the viewers.

Who owns the lions?

If the abusers now own the lions then they them selves will be feed to them eventually so its a nasty little circle, a catch 22 food chain.

Eventually as the abused become the abusers there will only be lions left and confused viewers who will have a big decision to make.


Ummm thats a NO from me Lyle , ;).

haha Oh man I love American Idol for the first 2 weeks. Deep seeded delusion ftw!

Spose I'm going to hell...:shakehead:

I dislike the entire idea of "reality tv" they are hybrid of 3 things which aren't that great to begin with #1 Reality, tv was invented to get us away from reality without the use of drugs/alcohol...reality tv should really be the NEWS (in the best case) #2 Game Shows...I suppose with the exception that you need talent to win on some game shows #3 Gossip and inane blabber about worthless people ie Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, etc.


All I am saying is if this is what they plan on feeding the masses then bring back the lions! Is nobody with me???

I suppose a lot of what constitutes reality tv is based on the premise that famous people are inherently more interesting in their day to day lives than "ordinary people". This is a fallacy. Most often you get famous movie stars away from the camera, or rock stars off the stage or out of the studio, and they're just as boring as we are.

Paris Hilton is a bit of an anomoly, a member of that new breed who are famous solely because of their famousness. No talent whatsoever. You wonder how they ever got famous. And their lives become inseparable from the concept of reality tv, because with it they'd be nothing.

Sometimes reality tv is rather funny. I thought the Osbournes was a hoot. Hulk Hogan and Gene Simmons reality tv are boring as hell.

Yeah a lot of reality tv exists because "we" like to see stars take a fall, e.g. Britney Spears.

American Idol is pure shit, it's a glorified Karaoke/Gong show.

So yeah Lyle, I'm pretty much with you, but I don't seem to get as worked up about it.

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American Idol is pure shit, it's a glorified Karaoke/Gong show.

So yeah Lyle, I'm pretty much with you, but I don't seem to get as worked up about it.

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Well think about it, the music being PUSHED on the people is pure shit and it's due to stuff like American Idol.

I'm sorry if I get worked up but whenever I think about what people may hate about America or Americans in general I look no further than MTV's "The Real World"....I hate THOSE Americans too and I am American.

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American Idol is pure shit, it's a glorified Karaoke/Gong show.

So yeah Lyle, I'm pretty much with you, but I don't seem to get as worked up about it.

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Well think about it, the music being PUSHED on the people is pure shit and it's due to stuff like American Idol.

I'm sorry if I get worked up but whenever I think about what people may hate about America or Americans in general I look no further than MTV's "The Real World"....I hate THOSE Americans too and I am American.

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:) no need for Sorry bud, and I do see your point about the image of America abroad, but consider this...

I don't think what you see on American reality tv is any dumber than what you see on some of the Brit games shows where people totally debase themselves for a bit of cash. And it certainly can't be any worse than some of the Japanese stuff I've seen.

We Canadians of course are above all that nonsense.

I like Japanese Gameshows....at least have SKILL to win!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxXLF6114Y0

I can't watch any of that stuff. I don't want to know who the nation's best karaoke singer is or watch somebody getting their tits out to get in the papers.

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I can't watch any of that stuff. I don't want to know who the nation's best karaoke singer is or watch somebody getting their tits out to get in the papers.

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Well we finally find something to agree on...have some rep you ol' SOB

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I can't watch any of that stuff. I don't want to know who the nation's best karaoke singer is or watch somebody getting their tits out to get in the papers.

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Well we finally find something to agree on...have some rep you ol' SOB

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I can't watch any of that stuff. I don't want to know who the nation's best karaoke singer is or watch somebody getting their tits out to get in the papers.

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Well we finally find something to agree on...have some rep you ol' SOB

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I agree with you about Arreola too.

Sweet...next up trickle down economics ;)....only kidding of course

kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya...