: About Me

I am a political scientist and my primary interests include political issues, history, research methodology (the art of true knowledge), music, business related questions, and traveling. 

A central interest of mine is also the internet and its significance in the world. I am very interested in seeing how governments respond to the use of the internet and eager to understand its long-term significance in the world.

Only rarely am I interested in questions like what should be, as my primary interest is simply in what is. This interest takes me towards learning a lot of different things at once and often returning to learn more about things I’ve left because I found something else that was interesting.

My great passion is music. I am a huge fan of the Beatles, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Weezer, and a lot of other things. I like playing the guitar too.  

My philosophy in life is to find enjoyment in the small things in life. There is humor in everything and we should get better at seeing it. I sometimes aim to communicate that in my articles.

My passion is ...

life itself, knowledge and trying to grasp reality

I know too much about ...

politics (especially of the interwar period) and 1960s music

My parents always told me ...

to stop talking so much

My childhood ambition ...

to become the next (and much better!) Superman

My favorite memory ...

was

Why I write ...

to improve my ability to turn thoughts into something coherent quicker

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

A lot of books at the same time/Dexter/Neil Young, the Who and the Beatles

My first job ...

lab assistant

My inspiration ...

John Lennon and people who believe in something

Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends Does reality TV really reflect reality ?

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In reality shows, contestants are placed in a “reality” they would not normally find themselves in. This reality is controlled and manipulated by television executives who makes money by getting people to watch their show after carefully picking the contestants for it. That both the selection of contestants and the situation these contestants finds themselves in are controlled by someone else indicates that reality television hardly reflects reality. By looking at the point or plot of these shows, it becomes even more clear that reality television is a genre and not a descripti...

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