Reality

I had a great discussion last night with a friend. It was about the new movie "Avatar". I'm not a big fan of fake reality and I feel people are becoming far too absorbed in this...from movies to TV. As I explained to my friend, at one time shows like Star Trek were what seemed to be a good alternative to reality to get a moral point of view across without shocking people with reality. I feel like it's gone too far now and may be creating a mind set that makes people immune to reality.

It seems large numbers of people want their reality pasteurized or sanitized..."don't give it to me straight anymore." "That offends me"..."but show me some cartoon version and that's OK." I feel this is allowing them to turn off others or events from anywhere outside their closely held group and act as if those other things don't really exist.

It's the Wal-Mart effect. Most people are informed enough now to know the cheap crap sold through discount or dollar stores is coming on the backs of under-paid works in China or Vietnam, but they choose to hide their proverbial heads in the sand. "Just give me CHEAP...and lots of it!"