No Fantasia in my mind...

i'm not immune to the reality tv show epidemic that we have locked ourselves into, but i've never gotten hooked on the american idol craze. my theory has always been if you can catch the series finale, then you haven't missed a thing. too bad we can't cut to the final episode of life the same way. election 2004: the final results; secrets to financial security: the episode you can't miss, the truth to life: all star cast. why is it that we are willing and encourage ourselves to rush though life, yet we subject ourselves to 13 weeks of drawn out uninspiring fantasies on television? we create drama in fiction instead of examining the mystery in our own lives. what if instead of spending that season of reality tv dialing #4942 on our cell phones to determine if fantasia or diana will be the idol of 2004, we spent it dialing into ourselves to determine our own 10-20 in life?
where does it end? when will we all find the show that will satisfy what we are really looking for?