Sunday, March 31, 2019

Reality TV

Hi Erin!  How are you today, Sweetheart?  You're always the easy-going type.  I wonder if you have a new gang of friends than you did in NYC.  How's life in Chicago?  I once met the son of a famous Chicago sausage maker when I was still working at the pizza joint.  No, it wasn't Abe Froman.  It was Dickman, believe it or not.

Back then I had little privacy, but nowadays it isn't that unusual to be spied on.  It's annoying, but it's actually normal nowadays.  Whether it's right or not remains to be enforced.  Of course, some people are more interesting than others.  And with social media, it's actually become a necessity for those who bank on fame.  Bank on fame?  So where's the money?  Anyway, TV is not just the networks and cable anymore.  Internet has become TV, with privately produced video, and the networks and cable rely on Internet now for content.  When you try to define what reality TV is nowadays, you can't confine yourself to entities that are able to be contracted.  Anybody with a cell phone can provide a scoop, and then when it becomes viral...

Watch out for those people who try to create a situation for reality TV.  It could be for money, or it could be for fame/defame.  That's tough to prepare for, one can only ride such a situation out.  The best preparation is a psychic wall, where no one can tell what your emotions are.  The next best thing is silence.  One's best friend is God here, and God has helped me many times in making a plotted situation worthless to the plotters.  Alhamdulillah.  Don't let yourself be intimidated, though.  Take the challenge, and don't forget to pray.