Games And Culture

Games reflect the cultures that they were created in. A competitive culture is far likelier to have highly competitive games than cultures that focus less on competition. Reality shows are a prime example of how games are molded by the cultural forces around them.

Cutthroat events like The Apprentice and Survivor are essentially games: There are players. There is an objective. There is a (potential) reward. And there certainly is a definite ending.

In most modern urban societies, it is keen competitiveness that keeps people in the rat race. There are essentially vast numbers of people chasing after a vastly smaller pool of presumably highly desirable opportunities. This is seen in how reality shows feature a group of people stepping over one another to achieve whatever goal they have set for themselves.