All they know is how to act...act "real"?

Let's think about this phenomenon for a moment. People go and star on one of these shows like "The Real World." They get a taste of the money and the free ranging lifestyle of playing yourself for the camera. You get to take every one of your emotions, every little aspect of your life, and blow it out of proportion. As a matter of fact, the producers want you to blow every situation up and out of proportion. They will place you in a situation where you start to act not like your real self, but the self you put on for the world. The self that is being paid to be right there, for the sake of being film. The self knows this, it knows that your being paid to "act" like youself in front of this camera. As a matter of fact that's how you are surviving, "acting real". Now what happens when the show is over, and the money flow isn't coming in, and your kicked out of your "Real World Crib". Then what? what's the easiest way for you to survive. How were you just doing it? By acting for the commercial world out there. So what do you do, try and sign up for the next biggest show with the cash flow, and ability to "win big" this time around so maybe you won't end up on another show later. But what happens to these people? Its like those in prison for too long...institutionalized. But these men and women, are institutionalized by their own aspect of reality, the TV reality, the reality TV. Having a camera always in your face reality. The camera beomces your reality, and it becomes how you define yourself in relation to the world. You get stuck, and all you know is how to act, act "real" for the camera. In all reality its simply drama. And we find these people "real", hah they're lifestyle is a product of corporate america, materialism at its best.