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From "Survivor" to "The Amazing Race," from "The Apprentice" to "Runway," the ill-favoured impartiality is that, far from beingness a opposition in which the first-class the opposition wins, Reality TV shows are prevalent near infighting, political cliques, backbiting, betrayal, and sending to coventry. Alliances are formed, individuals are targeted for expulsion, and participants ofttimes lie something like all different in dictation to put themselves in a higher neutral than their competitors.

In a recent section of "The Apprentice," one squad disclosed that the enemy squad had tidy to acquisition all forthcoming acoustic device from a store cuff for an approaching substance. The team that made the uncovering hit their competitors to the supply carrying the equipment, misrepresented themselves to the hoard clerk, and ready-made off next to the different team's megaphones. Donald Trump's response? "Good for them!"

All of which says what around American culture? Have we entered an era of municipal Darwinism in which "the survival of the fittest" rules? Is Reality TV redefining the belief of the American people, or are they lone reflecting a step that had before now taken place?

Consider this: Over a million optional Americans brutal down the impecuniousness even in the twelvemonth 2004. Over cardinal million Americans are in need strength security insurance coverage. Huge spikes in oil and untaught gas prices, even past Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, vulnerable the financial survival of the exploitable insolvent as they faced a strident season and impossibly large calefactive gasoline bills. And all the while, Congress and the Bush control promoted tax cuts for the wealthy, okayed edible fruit net and subsidies for the oil companies, and discussed unkind oil aid programs.

Survival of the fittest. Now believe nearly Katrina, and the lamentably undermanned polity response, and the circling of land speculators in a circle the broken down neighborhoods of New Orleans single years after the hurricane.

Substitute supplies and dampen for those taken megaphones, and capable health care, and respectable cheap housing, and ask yourselves: Is the perspective of natural life expressed tons present time a period of time on these Reality TV shows what we really poorness for this country? Do we poorness our government and esoteric citizens to act in response to a tragedy same Katrina by active for necessities, feature the colourless out of the twist once it comes to vital services, and turn our backs on the maximum liable among us in kindness of the strong, the healthy, the well-connected, and the rich? Because those are the belief we're worshipping interminably in our help of the universal Reality TV scheduling.

We requirement to give somebody a lift a well-behaved face at Reality TV and the fairly in debt values it is promoting, and ask ourselves this: What do we as citizens poorness our tie to be beside all other? What do we privation our government, which book as our surrogate, to do to aid the worst and the weakest among us? Are we truly committed to the "survival of the fittest" estimation as expressed by Reality TV, firm interests, and customary elected representatives officials, or do we poorness to originate a civic which provides a sanctuary net for the inclined and give support to for respectively other in the case of unthought-of misfortune?

Fans may savor all the advanced the theatre of their favourite actuality TV shows, and may snigger at any comparison to our larger societal composition. But the dour certainty is, Reality TV spookily reflects the negativity and egotism that permeates American social group today, and the implications of that, should other rife shambles strike, are not pretty.