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Here's something to chew on: Several episodes ago, the Tagi tribe formed a voting alliance that, if it stayed intact, would continue until they voted off every Pagong member, one by one, for five weeks - which, so far, they've done. The producers knew that. They knew, then, that they were looking at a month of suspenseless votes, as the Pagong lined up for the slaughter like veals. This, in its way, could be as dangerous as having people knowing the winner. So why not float a rumor that some of the Pagong made it to the Final Four...
REPUBLICAN TRIBE...
DEMOCRATIC TRIBE...
...tribe says I'm a loser, then I must be a loser, and when people see me on the street they're going to tell me so, again and again, until I start to cry. I'm a bad, bad person, and now, thanks to Reality TV, everybody knows...
Americans sift through more moral dilemmas in a week than people in earlier, more settled societies struggled with in a lifetime. Social/ethical debate has become our political theater - infuriating, entertaining, the stuff of tabloids and cable shout-shows. Culture wars sort us into moral tribes. Charlton Heston contemplates the Tribe of the Million Moms, and shakes his flintlock aloft, and roars to his own tribesmen, "Out of my cold, dead hand...