Lesson Four - The Truman Show

"We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions. we're tired of pyrotechnics and special effects. While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, there is nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts. No cue cards. It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine. It's a life." - Christof, during the opening credits of The Truman Show

Think about what we, as a society, are doing when we watch reality t.v.  What makes our lives so  dull and uninteresting that makes it a valuable use of our time to watch other peoples' realities?  How are the people on reality shows treated, how are they manipulated by the producers and how are we, as viewers, manipulated?  These are all moral questions to ponder.