A sign of the times

[ShadowHM]

I'm not sure why I'm posting this, other than to vent. Maybe I should start a blog. But, am I the only one who is bothered by the blurring of fact and fiction? Disturbed by people who think 'reality' shows are real? Upset that so many think professional wrestling isn't faked?

Hi Pete

I used to get boggled by the trash that some people choose to ingest with no evidence of mastication.

My father-in-law kept a pile of tabloid newspapers by the toilet and would occasionally interject odd facts into conversations with "I don't know where I read it, but....".

I concluded some time ago that most people would prefer fantasy to fiction, in at least some of their lives (if not most). In some cases it is laziness. In others it is a choice they make because their 'real world' just isn't interesting enough. Or, as P.T. Barnham is supposed to have said, "There is a sucker born every minute." The tricky part for me was learning not to spend energy being annoyed by the fact that their votes get counted right alongside mine.