Is this the real life or is this just fantasy? No escape from reality TV

AT SOME point in the future, someone will look at the “developed” world we have today and wonder at its weirdness.

The weirdness of making laws against racism and bullying, and then paying people to do both on television.

The weirdness of calling a genre of programming “reality” TV when it is absolutely unreal from the recruitment of has-beens and toxic nonentities to the unreal tests through which they are put.

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