I caught this new show on ABC over the weekend. It's a gameshow called "Downfall", where the contestant tries to win prizes while standing on the edge of a ten story building by answering trivia questions posed by a professional wrestler. Get the questions wrong and risk falling off a building. The setup of the show features a large conveyor belt that drops prizes, up to and including vehicles, off the edge of the building.
Am the only person so fucking disturbed by this?
Don't get me wrong. I love destruction. It's the American way. But ABC is funding a television show where millions of dollars worth of useable goods are being destroyed in the name of entertainment. It's funny.
Imagine though, being the guy that doesn't get to be on the show. He's 25 or 30. Married. Couple of kids. Works his ass off to do it the right way in the worst economy he's known, and still can't get ahead. He's lucky it's January, because he had to put the food on the back porch when the refrigerator kicked. He turns on the TV to get away from things for an hour and tunes in just in time to see Chris Jericho drop a fucking Frigidaire off the roof.
Look, i've been called a lot of things, and "compassionate" has never been one of them. My point is, this stuff is giving us a false sense of reality. There are real people that can't get one date, let alone have 10 people compete for it. There are real people living in shacks on islands, and they're not vying for a million dollars. And there are real people that don't have refrigerators.
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