One of my favorite movies is The Truman Show which starred Jim Carrey as a person trapped in a world which never actually existed for the rest of the world to watch as entertainment. Think of it as the most extreme reality TV show where from birth to death - the person is the subject (and they never know about it).

The premise is based loosely off Plato's allegory of the cave - another one of my favorites.

So when I first read about John McCain's plan to create a "reality-type" TV show for his campaign, I was more than a little interested in seeing how it turned out.