Lindsey Pritchett - Survivor

When I was younger, my parents used to watch Survivor: (insert name of various island here) on a weekly basis. As a child, I would read books and draw while paying minimal attention to the tv show. Most of what I remember is that a group of people were placed on an island, in the wilderness and they were expected to work with their teammates to survive. This generally included massive amounts of bickering and manipulation amongst the teammates. It bugs me that millions of viewers sit in their homes and watch this negative depiction of nature and actually consider it such. To me, survivor merely serves to show a controlled environment in which people are placed and instructed to act in a certain way for money. This is not nature. If it were, the people in these groups would actually work together as  a team and they would find a way of surviving, whether or not they win the silly games played. It would be more about forming bonds and learning to depend on each other in order to create a camp that could actually survive the elements. Nature is more of a place where people heal and reflect, not where individuals argue and manipulate each other for a prize. Thus, survivor is an incredibly negative picture of a nature that is not nature at all.