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what makes the problem worse is all of these so-called "reality" tv shows about celebrity and how rich people live.

today I got laid off of my job with the railroad and it genuinely makes me ill to see these Paris Hilton types prance around in name brand dresses and never have to work a day in their life. but it's not the celebrities themselves that make me nauseous, it's the way America idolizes them. and I know that I'm walking on well-tread ground here by saying this, but I am sick of people becoming lost in the escapism of what Mtv thinks is, and portrays as, reality. I feel bad for the 40 year old tubby woman in a trailer somewhere in backwoods Georgia watching this stuff and actually convincing herself that this is how life is meant to be, and is supposed to be.

I guess, in a way, America's celebrity worship and just culture in general is part of why I like horror movies so much. they seem completely opposite of those things. instead of making you feel bad that you're not rich and famous, they make you feel good that, "shit. I may be laid off of my job, but at least I'm not duct-taped to a chair in the Firefly house!"