... is called spying, or "voyeurism," and is frowned upon to the extent of being illegal with a penalty of up to five years imprisonment. But Big Brother indulges and seems to project a glorified version of voyeurism. Views can avoid all semblance of having a life and spend their time watching someone else do it for them. I may be missing the point but surely the whole idea of watching the television is to escape reality not to relive it nightly after having lived and worked throughout the day. Personally I don't watch television because I want to watch real people doing real things. If I were interested in that, I would just spend more time living my life. Moving on to the participants in Big Brother. Here are people becoming famous for being asleep, for flashing their breasts, for quarrelling, for complaining, for being unpopular and (this ...

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