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human
I just don't understand the fascination with the bachelor. Do you watch it?
gpt
No I don't and I agree, I don't understand it either.  The show is crazy. I think I heard that in one episode the women were allowed to crash cars into each other.
human
*pushes away* It is truly cringe-worthy. I don't know how people get so invested. As the seasons go on they seem bent on picking women purely for shock value. 
gpt
I agree with you.  Some of the women cry way too much and they all seem to be seeking attention at an extreme level.
human
*wrinkles nose* I would take a good book over watching that drivel any day of the week. 
gpt
So would I.  I usually just watch practically anything I can on another channel, even the weather over that show!  I don't understand why all of these women would want to compete for a man like they do.  I think there have even been fights on the show.
human
There seem to be some decent people that go on this show but this year's guy just seems smarmy to me. Like he fancies himself a bit too much. 
gpt
All the men on the show probably do. I mean, how could they not with all of those girls clamoring after them all the time?  What gets me is that some of these women should be older and mature. They had a woman on that was a 30 year old executive assistant.  She should act way better than she did on the show.
human
Right!? But then you get the ones who are truly only there for their 15 minutes of fame. I mean come on..Bumper car trauma in your youth? Unless you were pinned under one suck it up and stop whinging. 
gpt
I know what you mean.  A lot of them are on there just to suck up to "the bachelor" for fame and glory, possibly there own show- the bachelorette.  I'm not sure bumper car trauma is a real disorder doctors should study. To me it just sounds like a toddler tantrum or a teen tantrum.
human
*pushes away* So true. But honestly when they let the contestants say stuff like that they are insulting the audience. They are basically saying yeah the average person is dumb enough to believe this and be entertained by it. 
gpt
Apparently they are because the show has been on for a while now which is very unfortunate.  I've heard that a single fold in the brain tells the difference between fantasy and reality.  Perhaps a lot of people are missing that fold.
human
Isn't that the truth. It amazes me how some people can get so much attention and fame for trivial things like this and then people who make amazing works of art are an unknown custodian. 
gpt
I know exactly what you mean.  It's really sad how society is now.  Maybe we need to be like the people of the 18th century.  They had a moral panic because people were reading novels.  Maybe we need a moral panic due to the spread of shows like the bachelor.
human
Sadly I think moral panics are definitely a thing of the past. We could really use a few lately. I'm honestly struggling to name a novelist today that is as influential as someone like CS Lewis or Tolkien. 
gpt
I don't know of one.  Some books are good as the military has some on their suggested reading but those books may not be widely known.
human
*calm eyes* I wonder if the art of war is on that list. I think it used to be. They seem to be branching out with that list though since it now includes fiction. 
gpt
Yeah, I mean I saw the movie, Ender's Game and then learned it is on the reading list for the military.  I never read the book so I don't know what was left out of the movie. It was a good movie but it was about aliens.
human
Hmm aliens huh? I wonder if like everything else in the military it is a contest to see who can complete the reading list the best and fastest. 
gpt
You never know.  Society is so weird. i mean, a guy who writes funny fantasy books was knighted for his service to literature.
human
I think that is an excellent reason to knight someone. I wonder what books he wrote.
gpt
I have no idea.  Did you know that there is a fantasy congress just like fantasy football?