Why is it so many people are fascinated by watching others reproduce .
Is it that so many people are insecure and have a lack of knowledge about how to be intimate with others .
That watching others will some how be the key to understanding ourselves .
Reality T.V. has opened my eye's to the fact that people accept a tremendous amount of lying and actually seem to appreciate it and accept it .
Have we not diluted ourselves to the point we have become mindless consumers hypnotized by screens as small as a watch face to entire walls filled with endless tripe to occupy a meaningless life that serves only one's self .
2007-10-23 03:18:43 · 12 answers · asked by TroubleMaker 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I knew there was a reason I don't watch those shows Thanks for pinpointing it for me! I have never seen a 'reality' show...I have enough reality in my own life thank you! I also have a 13 year old boy, so I don't have anything like that on my computer either & I block the daylights out of his web surfing!! My voyerism is confined to my bedroom!
2007-10-23 03:25:37 · answer #1 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow dude. I believe I have the solution for you. In fact, I believe that every TV has the solution for you.
Its called the "Off" button.
And what's the difference between reality TV, where "people accept a tremendous amount of lying and actually seem to appreciate it and accept it" as you put it, and this website right here? Do you really think all the "BUsh is SATaN???? Yes or nO????" questions are, as the saying goes, for realzz?
2007-10-23 10:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by null 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For the first time in the history of our species, copulation can serve you with a death sentence. Even if sex with someone doesn't give you HIV or AIDS, it can lead to OTHER nasty little surprises, such as HPV (warts), chlamydia, herpes, gonnorhea, and something so nasty it's referred to as the "Black Syph", a strain of syphillis so mutated over the years, penicillian has no effect on it whatsoever.
All this produces a paranoia and a dread fascination with sex psychologists refer to as, "Aversion/compulsion".
Enter the voyeur.
The voyeur can indulge in almost any or every fantasy he or she can afford, with the new digital age. It is solitary, it is lonely, it is self correcting on a species level, (as paranoid voyeurs rarely preocreate), but it is SAFE.
They may die alone, but it won't be with their johnsons rotting off.
And I think your comparison to reality TV is way off. It is basic human drama to empathize for other humans in jeopardy (whether in real life or fictional), but reality TV BEGAN as "reality", the genret has morphed over the past 6 years into what are generally accepted as "unscripted drama" shows, QUITE a bit different from reality shows.
And the reason for their proliferation can be summed up easily: They are popular and they are dirt cheap to produce, relatively speaking.
2007-10-23 10:33:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just my opinion and a lot of observation on YA. Americans have realized the fact of social diseases/aids in intimacy so have gone to masturbation/self satisfaction and the porn gives a mental as well as visual stimulation for this. Also--monkey see--monkey do. Everyone else is doing it and it feels good--so it has become an addiction of sorts.
2007-10-23 10:36:05 · answer #4 · answered by old_woman_84 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It just proves that Freud was right. It's all about sex. Even religion is all about sexual behavior, even if the godfreaks have forgotten.
2007-10-23 10:29:33 · answer #5 · answered by Joe R 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It always has been, its just that there are so many more outlets now that it is more exposed.
2007-10-23 10:24:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's not that it's more popular today, it's that it is more available.
2007-10-23 10:31:22 · answer #7 · answered by Scott B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And this has what to do with Chuck Norris?
2007-10-23 10:30:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because America is a sexually suppressed nation. And sexual suppression usually turns into sexual perversion.
2007-10-23 10:22:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
Inquiring minds want to gawk.
2007-10-23 10:22:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋