“Today, more than twice as many young people apply to MTV’s ‘Real World’ show than to Harvard… Clearly, to a post-cold-war generation of Americans, the prospect of living under surveillance is no longer scary but cool.” —New York Times By and large, are the people alarmed by the erosion of our privacy the same ones who are appalled by reality television? They coalesce in me, for one; I have never watched, and never will, any reality t.v. (and I would not even if I were more than the minimal t.v. viewer that I am). I am reminded of the adage that people get the leaders they deserve.