They call it "Lo$$o" here ;) And yes the reality TV thing is unreal. What a boatload of crap. The networks are loving it. We export our jobs to outsourcing havens and import mindless voyeurism to apppease the masses. So goes the rise and fall of the western empire :) Was Rome any different? Maybe more fun <g>


>You're discounting the affects of reality TV. I can't beleive how hypnotized the mob becomes with "Idol" and "Apprentice", "Pimp my Ride", "Cribs" evun the "Superbowl". We've giving up:). We have accepted the fact that we are doomed to be be mindless muggles, so, insteading of improving our lot, we vicariously swoon away the time in the TV dream-share of the rich and famous.
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>We've become "Lotto Nation":)
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>>Yeah but at least you have high quality entertainment while you wait for the dole check; Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Jackass, to many to name. And all those fundamentaists! Who could want for more? ;)
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