Still people everywhere are seemingly addicted to the sudden flood of relationship reality 1shows that have plagued the nation over the last few years. What is so interesting about reality shows that captures our attention and glues us to the television so well? It must be the brilliant minds at FOX television network, working day and night to provide America with wholesome, quality entertainment. I doubt it. The last episode of “Joe Millionaire” brought in over seventy million viewers. Perhaps it is simply the sadistic side of human nature yearning to witness lying, deception, and deviant behavior mixed in with marriage.

America, listen up, put down the remote control and think about the true meaning of marriage for as long as you can bear. Try to realize that marriage is not simply about the tax breaks, but instead about honor, love, and integrity, Reality shows portray the opposite. Instill morals and values in your children and don’t let them watch these shows. In turn, America may be able to redeem itself by putting meaning back into marriage.

Imagine, if you will, agreeing to appear on a show to let America choose your spouse by watching the show and voting by telephone. One of the conditions is you have never met each other. At the end of a several weeks, you are engaged to a stranger. Now what? All the key elements of a working relationship are missing. A lot happens between meeting each other and marriage, in general, a few years, which is a considerable amount of time to get to know each other. Really, what kind of person chooses to do something as absurd as this? I suppose we can watch “Married by America” to find out. “Lighten’ up, it’s just T.V.,” you might say. Maybe, but with the divorce rate higher than ever and still rising, American television does not need to endorse marriage in this context, and call it reality on top of it. Even endorsing the act of engagement as an empty promise is no better. People decide to get engaged when they know they want to marry their significant other, and plans develop to do so from there. Engagement is not simply a test-run as relationship reality shows portray.

We already live in a secular, democratic, and capitalistic nation.

Some topics in this essay:
TV” Maybe, Mom Dad, Joe Millionaire, relationship reality, Reality Immorality, getting married, people getting married, morals values, divorce rate, meaning marriage, people getting, reality portray, american television, “joe millionaire”,