In the past ten years much as happened that demonstrate the moral and intellectual decline of America accelerated at a breakneck pace. One of my personal favorite snap shots of the decline that the past decade has seen is the proliferation of reality television.
Evidently reality television began in the 1990s with "The Real World" on MTV. However the 2000s saw reality tv become ubiquitous. Who could have imagined that Americans would become so intellectually challenged and morally downtrodden that they would be entertained by watching other intellectual challenged, morally degenerates live their pathetic lives? Or at best, be entertained by watching average people perform the mundane tasks of their lives?
Had someone slapped down a business plan on my desk, wanting me to invest in a television program consisting of watching a has been glamour rocker contract assorted STDs from the skankiest bunch of tramps imaginable, I would have laughed him out of the room. However, not only did people love it, evidently this spawned an even more reprehensible show that had one of the skanks then infecting both men and women with said STDs for sport.
The sheer breadth of reality tv shows is mindboggling. There are reality programs to watch queers sell real estate, queers change the appearance of people to make them look like pop culture idiots, queers design clothes, queers dress straight men (I can't be called homophobic referring to them as queers since the very title of the show referred to them as such), queers pretending to be straight to trick a woman into guessing whether they are queer or not for money, queers flipping houses...
But enough about the shows featuring queers. The list of choices for sitting on your couch watching other people's equally pathetic life extends from the surreal all the way down to the pathetic. Are you fat? There are shows that show fat people losing weight...isn't that like losing weight yourself? Unemployed and needing a shot of testosterone? You can watch lumberjacks or truckers drive on ice, or even watch a bloated and drugged out Steven Seagall pretend to be a cop...the choices are endless. Are you hungry? There's always a variety of people cooking on tv...can't wait for smellivision. Perhaps you're just a terrible parent. Never fear, there's more than one choice for you to watch a "professional" come into similar terrible households and impart what used to be common sense to people who clearly should not have children. Watching this is just as good as actually pulling your head out and being a responsible parent isn't it? Wish you had a different wife? Just turn on the tube and see how swapping wives turned out for the hillbilly and the college professor...that will cure you of wanting to trade in for a new model. Nose too big? Boobs too small? No worry just watch someone else get plastic surgery, that's just as good right? I'm sure on more than one occasion you've asked yourself, "What's Hulk Hogan doing today?" Gotcha covered. I've got to believe that you often wonder, "What is Gene Simmons do when he's not wearing makeup and screaming at people?" Wonder no more. "What I wouldn't give to know what M.C. Hammer's living room looks like," here you go...I'll stop because this could go on into the new year for sure.
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