Harry,
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Keith,
What is it you don't like about Survivor?
For that matter, Ed, what is it you don't like?
Harry
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I've little idea now what it is I don't like about Survivor because I can't remember it. All I can remember about it is that, during the few minutes I watched it, it filled me with the wish never to see it again.
I certainly did/do not like "Survivor" or any of its mutant progeny.
(Elias Canetti, in his book "Crowds and Power" (which I have recommended more than once...) used the appellation "the survivor" to refer to the person who survives at any price to any and everyone else. Canetti urges that we recognize the survivor mentality for what it is and that we need to struggle against this mindset.)
I think there are a lot of interesting aspects to the "Survivor" TV show, including the conjured up tribalism and tribal rituals, and, of course, even if the participants are not profesional actors, they are in general a telegenic lot, so that the TV viewers once again get to look up to the doings of their Olympian deities.
As the person who founded RCA said:
I don't get ulcers; I give them.
We do not yet live in an honorifically secular world.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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