Reality Television

The idea of post modernity is that we are constantly developing new technology which is a good thing but developing these technologies doesn't mean that it is making us better. This concept comes from modernism which is the idea of we are improving and progressing forward. The present is better than the past and the future will be better than both. Modernism was a good concept up until war, but ever since then we haven't been actually getting better so this has led to post modernity. With post modernity more of a grey area is formed in a lot of aspects of life but especially in reality television. Reality television calls itself real but it's the complete opposite and people even know that it's not real but still parts of us still believe or get emotionally invested/attached. So to put it shortly, we accept fake and real at the same time which we do all of the time in a post modern world. So for example, Teen Mom may look real but it's scripted and you only see what they want you too or one aspect of a person. We know that being a teen mom isn't really how it is as it's portrayed in the show but yet we watch and see if Farrah, for example, gets a boyfriend or if other couples work out their issues. We get emotionally attached and we feel sorry for them when we know their lives aren't as they are portrayed on screen. I mean come on they're on TV, they have nice phones, but yet they don't have any money. I mean when you look at it like that it's hard to believe that you are a fan of the show, but you just can't help accepting both the fake and the reality.