I've had a lot of time to watch tv recently, what with my surgery and all, and couldn't help but wonder what other people are thinking at this exact moment. More specifically I became both highly intrigued and completely offended when I was fooled (like the rest of america) into thinking there was an actually boy flying through the Colorado air in a Jiffy Pop ballon. I've been watching the massive out pouring of opinions that have resulted from this, well why not call it, lame ass controversy. This has led me to believe that reality shows are the demise of american culture as we know it. Why do I say this? Because the first reality shows were pretty cute and sweet, and had the whole "let's root for the underdog, hope the average joe makes it so that america can restore its faith in humanity" effect. However, that is no longer the purpose. In fact that effect lasted about, 2 secs? Where I'm going with this is that it seems reality shows are serving a much evil rooted purpose that they initially set out to. In the past 2 years, there have been reality show contestants accused and some proven guilty of murder, drug trafficking, sex offense, you name it. Why is this happening? I feel like reality shows are giving people who generally fit the criminal criteria an open arena to be well known, which I'm thinking is what they want in the first place. In any case, what can be done about this? Any thoughts...I'd love to know what you guys think.