Tuesday, August 31, 2004
I’m a big fan of reality teevee. I like to watch people eat disgusting roaches and spiders on Fear Factor and I like to see how nasty people are in The Amazing Race. They will lie, push other contestants out of the way, act horrible just to win. It’s the shadowself full on.
Right now I am watching Amish in the City. How refreshingly unjaded the Amish are and the city people, well, the city girls seem to like to sit on their princess tuffets a lot. Actually they seem utterly worthless. The Amish idea of not educating their children past high school isn’t good either. (They can’t go to college because there are no Amish colleges: it would mean they would have to go “outside.” Hmm. Makes me think of M. Night Shamalayan’s The Village. Except that was the opposite. The people made up a fake archaic village to escape from the Real World.)
No I wouldn’t want to be Amish or a fleer or a lazy city girl either, so my choice is NONE.
So there. That’s how good teevee (and movies too) is (are)…I didn’t have to live through any of that stuff. I saw it, made my choice, and didn’t have to waste my time suffering through it. Good deal.
