Dating Shows are the ultimate "DO NOT"

Dating shows cause me to vomit a little bit in my mouth. And yet, HOW TELLING they are about our culture and what a void of meaning there is in our relationships. We aren't even sad when people break up. We expect it. We might even want it. For instance, no one will be surprised when the winner of "More to Love" and the lucky man break up on some other follow-up show. For purposes of the moment, we'll call that show, "Mike just wants a Mini Skirt." Maybe he will get a backstage pass to "Megan Wants a Millionaire" and they'll hit it off and make a new show together, "Meg and Mike have a Tike." Then they'll have successfully brought a new generation into the world of hollywood relationships, and we can all watch how the kid grows up, somehow survives the impending divorce of his painfully superficial parents after some "alleged infidelity." Then we'll all be surprised-except-not when the kid gets arrested for something like petty theft (even though he's a millionaire) and lands his very own hit show "The Life of an American Teenager: The JUVIE HALL Days"
These shows are like eating junk food every day for a month times 100. All they serve to do is to present an increasingly apathetic populous with trite exaggerations of real-life relational misery so that we feel better by comparison and get a little entertainment out of the deal. TO WHAT ARE WE COMPARING OURSELVES, PEOPLE?