Although I have yet to watch an episode of American Idol I have heard some very mixed things about the show. However from the responses on “When did American Idol get emotionally violent it seems that it has rapidly become one of those shows clinging desperately to their viewers. I feel that using people’s misery, failure, and strangeness to create a link from American Idol to the American Dream is wrong, a misinterpretation of our country’s foundations, and simply cruel. The American Dreams, the very basis of country, is the simple evolution from the average man to something much more. Furthermore, American Idol, a very family oriented show, should not be televising programming that is demeaning towards anyone nor should they document the sad lives of people only to have their dreams crushed. This is NOT how the American Dream should be portrayed nor is it something we should encourage our children to watch. We have already deteriorated so much as a culture we don’t need to also derive pleasure or entertainment from these people’s suffering and misfortune.
Schadenfreude is the satisfaction from other people’s misery.
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