Something isn’t real just because you call it real. For example, if I pointed to a potato and said, “That’s a real television,” you wouldn’t believe me. However, if I’m in TV land and I call my TV show “reality television”, it seems like a lot of people actually believe it is real.
In real life, you don’t succeed just because you are good looking and easy to get along with. Oh, wait, maybe that should be changed to “you don’t always succeed…”
In real life, women have a lot more unwanted body hair after being stranded in a jungle for 42 days.
In real life (unlike books, movies and television) people do lots of ordinary, meaningless things that don’t move the story along.
The only time it makes sense to wear a small square of fabric in 15 different ways in real life is if you have a job modelling ‘The Wonder Scarf’ on the shopping channel.
On reality television people around you say “he’s good at playing the game” when you lie to them, connive, and make secret alliances to get what you want; but in reality, people would call you a dishonest, two-faced jerk.
In real life your employers don’t encourage you to sleep with colleagues while they film you (unless you work in the porn industry, of course).
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Thank you so much for your outlook, I totally agree with you. It is great to see a fresh outlook on this and I look forward to more.