Amazing Race 17

Watching the end game, the last part of the Amazing Race 17 can make me teary eyed. That no matter who you are whether you have a doctorate's degree, executive or whatever your strength or body built you have or no matter how high your IQ you'll reach to a point of critical review whether that race is really worth it or not. Yes for the sake of winning the $1 million in DOLLARS! That's a lot of money. You wont earn it in a month, in a year or even in two years by doing a menial job, nor even if you are a stock broker. One million dollars is $ 1,000,000 with 6 zeros!!!!!!!
But is that enough after you have encountered all the death defying stunts of a lifetime? probably you'll tell to yourself that's it...Never again.

Having to punish yourself going to 3rd world countries and eat the food that you never eaten before. Food that could turned your stomach upside down. Sweating from head to toes, not able to have clean tidy clothes and not able to have warm nice bath, traveling here and there with dirty filthy dirt include the germs on your hands and body. Being over fatigue and being sick and you think is it really worth it? Worst like boot camp right? Oh wait not really. Because in the army they really got to be in the war. So Amazing race is actually just surviving too many obstacles and tasks upon tasks to be performed and to be at the Pit stop at the end of every leg of the race. While in the army at the end of military traing deployment is inevitable and you end up in the war torn countries either to fight, protect and serve.

Amazing Race is just another BBA or Black Box Approach popularized by BF Skinner and was probably originated during the Nazi's regime. The fact of the matter is those who are into this kind of approach are more than willing to participate meaning they allowed themselves to be a willing participant. In other words you can say NO or back out from it because that kind of game is not by force. Or you can ask Mr. Bruckheimer the truth. Whatever...it's a race and it's to the extreme. Fear factor is more than to the extreme. One million dollars is a lot of money to be given away for nothing.

Lastly you don't get millions of dollars in the army as a prize that's the difference. Probably you get a medal of honor for valor and bravery.