Our capitalistic nation has produced the ultimate insult to injury this week with the new television game show, "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" This contest involves a male (whose only known attributes are that he is single and extremely wealthy) and 50 single women. The women paraded around in bathing suits and were asked to answer questions that they had obviously already prepared answers to, as if they were in a Miss Teen USA beauty pageant. Then "cuts" were made: the man chose ten women who were physically pleasing enough to consider them to be his wife.These ten women must then model evening gowns, and based on which girls he liked best, the millionaire eliminated five more bachelorettes. The five remaining contestants put on wedding dresses and the man picked the one he wanted to spend the remainder of his life with, as easily as if he were choosing what he wanted for dinner that night.This lucky woman then stepped toward her new fianc, introduced herself, stepped up onto the altar and said, "I do."Up until a few hours ago, I believed that in our society, people got married out of a mutual love and respect for each other. Apparently not. Now, people marry each other for money and appearance alone. This television show is a sad comment on our society, along with the other string of "get rich quick" game shows, such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Greed, and Twenty-One. Americans are obsessed with money! We want to be rich no matter what the cost.What happened to values, love, and especially morals? We are advertising marriage as something that is to be taken lightly and based on aesthetics and monetary gains alone. There is no wonder why the divorce rate in this country is close to 50%. Societys attitude on marriage is a sad reality and one that should be examined more closely in the near future....
