Originally Posted by krispistoferson

Screw TeeVee. Usually, if there's a show I'm interested in, like "Six Feet Under" or "Lost," I'll wait 'til it comes out on DVD and rent it. Some of these reality and makeover shows really freak me out, because they alarm me as to where our culture is headed. It's hard to feel patriotic when you suspect all your country-men and -women of being melodramatic, wannabe rockstars , plastic surgery sideshow-freaks and vapid drama-queens.Also, that old chestnut about "it's what's on the inside that counts" is still true, in my humble opinion, but advertising and Oprah oil the wheels of commerce by making us all feel ugly and inadequate. It's no big secret.