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Take a drink every time I say "reality".

Reality TV has become somewhat a part of our culture. I wouldn't know much since I don't really watch TV, but I think the author of Reality Hunger has made it clear so far that reality TV is not real at all. The audience would want to watch the "most interesting reality," disregarding the fact that this reality isn't reality enough. Everything has to be interesting, and that has become reality, despite not being reality. According to the author, there is "no fiction nor nonfiction" because we don't know what's real anymore. Everything is reality, and yet, nothing is reality. Think about it: both fiction and nonfiction have "devices" that makes the story a more interesting reality, and that just turns it away from reality.

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So, are essays real. If reality TV is not reality, are essays reality? Apparently, an essay is a "theater of the brain" where "ideas are protagonists". Does that make it more real or closer to reality? I will stop bombarding you with questions as I spoil it for you: essays aren't real, at least according to David Shields. The essay is personal.

Apparently, nothing's real.

So what about memoirs, the other genre he mentions? Nope, not real. Not reality. Chances are that the memoirs are biased towards the authors. Also, memoirs are forms of nonfiction in a way (I guess) so there's that.

There was apparently a guy back in 2008 that started writing people's life stories on the back of their postcards. The guy said that it was hard to portray the lives in a way that does their stories justice. The guy writes about them, no matter how unreal the stories are. He just asks questions and stuff gets written. We can clearly see that reality isn't really a concern, it's the "reality" of each individual that matters. The guy states that "everybody's life story is interesting if you ask the right questions," which, in accordance to some stuff I've mentioned before, mean that it's not reality. If you try to find the interesting, it won't be real.

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I'm at a very sensitive point in my life, so I shall stop here.

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If you're not dead, be thankful.