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October 11, 2005
80s rocker knows reality
I’m a dozen pages deep into the latest issue of World Weekly News and a few ounces into my cream soda. Call it a sham, a tabloid, a joke. But it’s beauty to me. And someday, I’ll write for them. I’ve been reading stories of aliens, of fossils of Jesus, of life-saving cows and excerpts from random pieces of paper I find on my floor. All this is a wonderful break from reality.
The first story I saw was some mumbo jumbo written about Ted Nugent getting his own reality TV show.
The Nuge! Now that’s creativity. I praised my proverbial Allah that our world isn’t quite crazy enough to give that gun-toting, left wing maniac his own show.
Imagine the type of person who would watch that show. Some middle-aged “Cat Scratch Fever” enthusiasts, no doubt.
During my pondering, I made a terrible discovery. This isn’t the World Weekly News I hold in my hands. I accidentally picked up a real newspaper instead. This article is for real. Ridiculous.
There were even funny quotes in the article to accompany the picture of Nugent with a dead animal. This man listed ‘fur’ as his favorite food. I thought it had to be a joke. Reality is indeed not what it used to be.
I jumped on the Internet to look into this mayhem a bit deeper. It’s all true. At one time, Nugent had been cutting down trees solely to be used as seats for the contestants on his show and managed to injure himself with a chainsaw. But apparently it’s because he was saving some woman from a falling tree. Now I don’t know what to think of the whole thing. I’m sure in the end, as usual, horrible ideas like this will make
wonderful television for the masses.
I thought the reality TV fad was over with. Reality shows have been praising humiliation and cashing in on
the shortcomings of others for several years now. It has always seemed pretty sick to me, and sometimes I can be downright cynical, so that might be saying a lot. Reality television shows have altered our perception of reality a bit.
Reality shouldn’t be watching other people’s lives through a box. Reality is when you wake up after a party, when you trip down some stairs, when you forget someone’s name. It’s not when you put a bunch of people with contradictory personalities in the same room, and provoke them to bite each other. How real can you be when your life is videotaped, especially when you think about the handy work that editors are capable of? TV reeks of fakeness. I am nauseated by the notion.
Reality has always been something we all strive to define, and then proceed to search for. I’ve never found it, but I’m not going to ask for help from those who have. There is too much in the air hindering my search. Despite searching, you can’t find reality. I know this now. It’s imaginary. We’re born into reality, and it continues after we die. It’s barely a topic to be discussed. My search is over as of now.
It must be an impossibility to define, identify, or describe reality at any level more than vague, especially in a discussion with someone else. In such a discussion, you’ll learn that everything and nothing is real, we’re all the same and we’re all our own, time creates reality and reality creates time. This is a fruitless subject for any time of day or night.
I wonder what thoughts Ted Nugent would have to share with the world on reality. It would be very insightful, I’m sure. Then he’d end up getting his own book deal to boot. It would most definitely be on some top 10 book list, and I’d happen to read some article about it, and a new cluttery jumble of thoughts would overcome me again. I can’t wait.
Posted by msveum at October 11, 2005 11:33 PM
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