So I read, or have been reading, over the last few days on the news tickers that the TLC show Jon and Kate plus 8 is going to be seeing some stressful episodes due to a divorce filing by the now famous couple. Can anyone be truly surprised by this? I mean how long would any relationship last if you are constantly having to play to the camera? Talk about never being able to relax and take the mask off.
But lets consider, for the sake of argument, that what viewers have witnessed on this TLC peeping tom show is truly is how they would be acting with no cameras around; which I have serious doubts about. Can anyone truly be shocked by this divorce? I have watched some episodes, I admit it. But not for the purposes that TLC intended I am sure. I just happened to be scanning channels and saw it and decided to see what all the fan fare was about.
I watched like two episodes and could only wonder why anyone would want to go through having camera crews around 90% of your waking hours. Oh sure you get paid, and I am sure they got paid well, and you get free trips out of it. Likely they also get other amenities like diapers or spending allowance on clothes, or maybe not. But regardless I saw it as a representation of what our society has become; a peeping tom of reality shows that lets you witness how others behave so you can judge others 24/7 and avoid ones own pathetic life.
Why else would you watch something like this, or any other reality show for that matter, beyond trying to consume your own boredom. Anyone remember the Truman show? How we have become that society in that story is frightening, hell....we probably were already there. In the end, I hope Jon and Kate find happiness and that their children are not scared for life when later they found out that not only did their parents divorce but their whole childhood was a television show that they had not choice but to participate in. Sad, sad, sad.
I watched like two episodes and could only wonder why anyone would want to go through having camera crews around 90% of your waking hours. Oh sure you get paid, and I am sure they got paid well, and you get free trips out of it. Likely they also get other amenities like diapers or spending allowance on clothes, or maybe not. But regardless I saw it as a representation of what our society has become; a peeping tom of reality shows that lets you witness how others behave so you can judge others 24/7 and avoid ones own pathetic life.
Why else would you watch something like this, or any other reality show for that matter, beyond trying to consume your own boredom. Anyone remember the Truman show? How we have become that society in that story is frightening, hell....we probably were already there. In the end, I hope Jon and Kate find happiness and that their children are not scared for life when later they found out that not only did their parents divorce but their whole childhood was a television show that they had not choice but to participate in. Sad, sad, sad.
