Boyle.

From time to time I guess I will repost things I wrote somewhere else, in this case, this is going out to an email group I write to, and we had discussed a few weeks ago Reality TV and what it means.

First, you should watch this clip, from England's new show, "Britain's Got Talent".
Then you should read this article.

I am not sure if this person is a little melodramatic, but I love the sentiment with which he writes. The most important moment in the performance, I think, is at around :46 seconds in, there is a teenage or early 20's girl who makes a face that says so many horrible things ... the expression is one that clearly says, "Ugly People Have No Right", but what I think the performance that Susan Boyle gave - although it is if no real significance on its own, as its just reality TV - is that it made us realize that :47 seconds in we all had the same face as the Horrible Girl in the clip, we just may not have been making the literal face.

It'll be interesting to see where this lady ends up, if she ends up with a Record Contract, or with World Fame, all of which would be odd because it'd be giving credence to the idea that its suprising that Ugly people can do things correcty...but at the same time, if she can stay grounded, it'd be an interesting thing to see someone "normal" and "grounded" get famous via reality TV.

To bring this into American terms, and into the terms of the Global failing economy, Peter Gammons the other day was speaking about the new Yankee stadium and how the stadium is outdated before it even opened, because as he said in his own words, it is already a "Shrine to Opulence" which nobody has the time for anymore, nor the financial patience to deal with.

Reality TV has been our most glorious form of Opulence in the past 7 or 8 years, and I think its culminating with the success of "The Real Housewives of (City X, Y or Z", but I do have optimism that its going to end, and the simple fact that 30 million youtube hits are willing to actually put a real person at the forefront of reality TV is sorta saying something. We are by no means at a point where we should or could be proud of what we are doing with reality TV, as a globe, but is there any positivity we can take out Susan Boyle and the reaction she is getting?

I don't know, maybe?