The Magic Box

So the invention of the television is no doubt one of the greatest. Eliminating boredom and bringing life to the everyday house hold. It is also a way to relay information to the mass public. Improvements on this front have been vast and far between! We can now watch live events from the other side of the world, that looks better than real life!

Apart from watching the Rugby, TV also provided us with a tool for procrastination and a new form of Drama, called acting! This was kind of improved upon the stage acting. In turn this acting introduced us to series, movies and cartoons, but what seems to be the most popular is Reality Television...

On DSTV there is a whole channel that is basically all about reality TV. What is this reality television I speak of. Its basically a person or a group of people being followed around by a camera crew as they live out their everyday life. What intrigues me the most, is that the people that are being followed are the rich and famous.

What is it that so intrigues us about the rich and famous that we would spend countless hours in front of the television to watch other people live out their lives in their perfect world? That's just it? I think you could watch their lives to know that they aren't perfect, or you could be watching aspiring to be like them. I think that we are just so drawn to an Utopia that we think exists.

We want to have a peep into another world different to ours, a world we all wish to have. We watch people we wish to look like and be like. Oh and that stupid shit that's on MTV.. We like to laugh at the stupidity at people, we want to feel superior. as for the teenage pregnancy crap, "Who the eff knows!?".

What really baffles me about this new aged reality television thing is why people watch it?

Firstly, there are like 100 other better things on TV, check the Discovery Channel or National Geographic, maybe you'll learn something worth while?

Secondly, your wasting your life away on the couch watching someone els live theirs? See the irony?! Go live your life!

And thirdly, these people are earning money by living their own lives and being the people that they are! Take the hint. So be yourself, you never know you might get a reality TV series of your own!