It started as a social experiment – real people, living real lives with real cameras following their every move.
But the ‘experiment’ taught us little that we didn’t already know...
That people will do pretty much anything to have masses of other people know their name - that people would go to ever more humiliating and amoral lengths to win their fifteen minutes - and that ‘reality’ on television bears little reflection to the reality of our daily lives.
And out of this other reality came a whole new industry.
One that churned out ‘celebrities’ by the dozen, shifted magazines and launched a thousand lurid headlines. One that encouraged us to scrutinize, criticize and chastise strangers in the spotlight.
2000 years ago they put preening warriors in arenas with Lions and whooped and hollered as they were torn apart.
These days we put preening prima-donnas onto television screens and whoop and holler as they are torn apart.
But this industry is a hungry beast. And we are an insatiable audience.
Soon an argument wasn’t enough. Soon sex and sham relationships were not enough. Not even the mentally ill were spared the glare of the media circus.
The crowds kept braying… the channels kept chasing the ratings... the producers kept amping the drama - a sick puppy chasing it's tail, spinning ever faster, out of control, desperate for the next quick reality fix.
Countless ‘creatives’ are paid to scheme up ever more shocking scenarios and countless nobodies are queuing up to endure them, sold the lie that fame or even infamy can change your life.
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So where will it end?
Come on! It ends with blood. It ends with sacrifice. It ends tonight.
Tonight Kian Oduya died – but not before lifting the curtain on the puppetry that pushed it all to this point.
Five were cracked…only one was killed …the first, and I hope, last to die before your eyes.
The ultimate sacrifice to drag this horrible entertainment to it’s inevitable finale…
Tonight Kian Oduya died for all of your sins – the great martyr of Reality TV.
The one who surrendered himself to liberate you – Yes indeed, it ends tonight.
You’ve finally seen it – you’ve got what you’ve been waiting all this time for.
Summer’s dead.
Now Get Back To Reality.
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