When Channel Four first launched the show "Big Brother" I thought, that name is going to corrupt the meaning of the Orwellian phrase.
Little did I expect the more lasting consequences.
Copy-cat shows piped up, and since the stars were so talentless they were incredibly cheap to make.
When it became so cheap and engaging to make Reality TV that no other types of TV could be justified, we passed the Reality TV event horizon. They saturated the culture with mass-drivel.
Soon, the only people who could be elected president or prime minister or even MPs were the kind of vapid uninteresting nobodies that reality TV feeds upon. First Trump, then Johnson, and then all the others.
Not only did they saturate our airwaves, now the reality TV stars also filled the corridors of power.
The end was inevitable after that. The mega-scale problems facing our civilization would have been difficult even with our best minds unleashing our utmost effort. Instead we had reality TV stars arguing about conspiracies directing effort at walls and garden-bridges and vanity projects.
It is too late for our world now.
I broadcast this message to the galaxy only in the hope that any who find it can avoid this terrible memetic hazard for their own culture.
Burn this planet, and never let the phrase "Reality TV" be uttered in all your galactic empire. It is the kind of mind-virus that can collapse civilizations.
