Time magazine has an article this week about how Reality TV shows are faked. Next week they're running a cover story posthumously outing Liberace.
Apparently some of they ways in which they're faked are by actually over-dubbing comments, splicing together scenes shot days apart or out of context to give the illustion of heightened conflict. One little nugget dropped in the article is that the apartment the would-be Apprentices inhabit in Trump's epic ego-fest is actually a set in a studio.
Okay, so there may be one or two mouth-breathers left who rush home for their latest fix of "Reality" - convinced that it's gospel. But hasn't the question on most minds been:
"To what extent do they fake? Is there anything actually uncontrived?" OR
"How do they do it?"
So here I am on my soapbox again about Reality. A subject closely connected with the interstices between Buddhism and Science.
Where does our "Reality" come from? Is there an absolute Reality out there? Do we make it up in our heads? Are our brains really giant Holographic projectors? Why do two people see see the same event differently? Do we see what we want/expect to see?
I've written about and discussed this subject ad infinitum. So 'nuff from me. But it's such an important subject and so worthy of rumination that I thought I'd drop in a few interesting links to thought-provoking material.
Reality Blurred Online Journal
The Joy of Perception The nuts and bolts of how we see.
R.D. Laing "Knots". An excerpt.
Okey dokey. If you haven't had enough of "Reality" and would like to explore it some more - I will shortly be offering my popular e-mail class again. It's free.( I hope that's not the most appealing thing about it).
"Living within your Sensory Field."
It was a lot of fun last time. If you'd like a Reality tune-up drop me a line or go to my website, The Constructed Life, and sign up thru the opt-in newsletter box. Check your interests as "Living within your sensory field".
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