The positive thing about a reality TV show is that it isn’t real. It might stir up all manner of emotions and significantly alter the lives of the instant (or scrap heap) celebrities but only a few hours engagement for everyone watching. There is next to no emotional real estate involved outside of the TV host but it gives people something to talk about. The negative side is that provides amusement in the literal sense. Break that word up and you have ‘muse’ which means to think, preceded by ‘a’ which adds a ‘not’ at the beginning. A liitle escapism is not a bad thing but too much teaches you to disengage with actual reality — its crazy that we would ever have to qualify what reality is.
The government isn’t just playing this game out to see how the land lies, they are playing for time
I purposely didn’t watch the Dominic Cummings press conference because I knew it would push my buttons. I also avoided discussions over his arguments because that would engage me more than I cared to. The whole thing was reality TV that took all the oxygen out of social media this side of the pond and engaged minds in a staged event that would inevitably create more heat than light. Everyone knew they would be lied to and we know from experience that all you have to inject into the news cycle is a counter narrative — it doesn’t matter if its simply invented — so that rather than dealing…
