Re: Game Shows and School Shootings

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 09:59 AM 4/5/01 -0700, Jim wrote:
>On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:49:34 -0500, Steve Sloan wrote:
>
> >  Is it a coincidence that game shows based on excluding people,
> >  like Survivor and The Weakest Link, are becoming popular in the
> >  US, at about the same time that outcasts are getting guns and
> >  shooting their classmates?
>
>Honestly, I think it *is* really just a coincidence.  We've always been
>fascinated by the "darker side" of human nature anyway.  Remember, there was
>a time when we exectued people in public because it was entertaining.  In
>the same manner, I think people tune in to see who gets "killed" next.
>
>On a related note, am I the only person who already wants to brain that
>obnoxious English woman from this retarded Weakest Link show?  Gads, she's
>annoying!  Do you think the British sent her here for the US version just to
>get her away?  :)


Thank goodness for the fast forward button . . .



-- Ronn!  :)