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Survivor as Ancestral Catharsis
- Survivor offers a cathartic connection to ancestral survival skills lost to modern life.
- It allows viewers to vicariously experience primal challenges in a controlled, televised setting.
Manipulation as Game Strategy
- Survivor encourages manipulative, cult-leader-like behavior to win.
- Participants must form alliances and betray others to survive gameplay.
Disturbed by Starvation Glorification
- Amanda was disturbed watching people glorify starvation on Survivor during her sensitive adolescent years.
- The show glorifies suffering through hunger as part of the survival spectacle.