Although many think that theater has very little merit in showing real world traits, I strongly agree that theater is a mirror of the real world. Overall, theater affects every part of the world and every major industry or institution. If one looks at commercials, they use dramatic elements to capture poeples attention. Some genres of movies are getting better due to better use of dramatic elements. Even political debate and campaigns use dramatic elements to keep the populace enthralled and gain support.
Some times, I think that theater has had too much of an impact. Everything that people do nowadays asks for attention. Take reality television. Though they try to make it as real as possible, It gets over dramatized, leading to a skewed world view. The same goes for the paparazzi following the lives of the Hollywood Stars. Some of these stars could be acting in order to gain attention and yet we eat it up as fact. This could be drama's major downfall. It may reflect the human condition as Professor Fusi said. Yet, it also seems to create a false image of reality in its effect on society.
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Interesting point of view. While I understand where you are coming from and agree for the most part, I can't help but think that modern society's false sense of reality is merely reflected in television and theatre, not created by it. If you look at the world today, some things just seem a little too much to deal with. It's like the use of narcotics during the Vietnam era- we need to escape somehow. Life today can sometimes feel without direction, lacking a distinct outcome or so overwhelming that we don't know how to cope. I know from personal experience that thinking and worrying about the friends I have fighting in Iraq right now, the immense amount of homework I have, the fact that sometimes I miss the comforts of home, all at once gets so overwhelming that I just want to break with myself for an hour. I think some people watch reality television to see the ridiculousness of it, to know that their life is somehow a little more normal.
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