Reality TV
Different people get sucked into reality shows for different reasons.
Our primary goal is to make a show that's compelling.
There's no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.(Is there even narrative?)
We want our viewing or reflect our complicated, messy, difficult, overloaded, overstimulated lives.
In Charles instructs Mrs. Flanders to stop moving, he's altering the world in order for it to match what he wants to paint, rather than shaping his painting to reflect what's actually occurring in the world.
The success of the genre reflects our lust for emotional meaning. We really do want to feel, even if that means indulging in someone else's joy or woe. We have a thirst for reality(other people's reality, edited) even as we suffer a surfeit of reality(our own--boring/painful).
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