I’ve watched a couple of new survivor
shows recently. There’s one called “Naked and Afraid.” Yep, two people, a man and a woman, who don’t
know each other take off all their clothes and meet in a field or somewhere
and together they test their survival skills for 21 days.
It's a production. A game show. Survival
is a misnomer. Naked is true. I'm not sure about afraid. There is a production crew on location,
videotaping the choices of these naked strangers. The front parts of the body are blurred; the backs are not. It’s shock drama
to keep you watching, but it's not really survival.
If anyone of the contestants were
starving, hurt or harmed in anyway, other than a bruised ego for not making it,
then the production crews would provide aid or sustenance. Besides the
contestants can quit at any time.
The real survivors of the world are the
starving children and adults in places that might just as well be a wilderness
for all the attention the outside world gives them. They do not have the luxury
of immediate outside help, nor can they quit and go home. They die. According
to the world health organization, 35 thousand people a day, a thousand children
an hour, die from hunger and hunger related diseases.
The few who do make it are the real survivors.
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