This is the extent to which we have deadened ourselves... we find reality TV amusing. We like dignity on sale. We like to feel superior to people who are brainwashed to act their worst when really we fall for the same trick ourselves each day. Only it is called laissez faire - allow to do. Allowed to shop at supermarkets, allowed to be stuck in traffic jams, allowed to consume overpriced, over-processed filth. Allowed to have miserable, small existences. For that you get the prize money. Money to go consume some more. And because our existences are so narrow, so lacking in real experiences, we want the hyper-real world of soaps, movies and serials. Where births, deaths, love, sex, marriage, infidelity, blood, struggles, fights and betrayals play out in a blur. All our collective experiences played out in fast forward in a blinding succession of images crammed into 30 minutes or less. Our lives drained away to create that extra clear, high definition, unreality.