text: is the experiment on lost, really an experiment on the viewing public?   careful, i wouldn't tug on that thread too hard. because it might turn out that your life is not really your life, but merely some bizarre reality show that people on another planet are watching (think "truman show") and if you start asking too many questions, they might "boot you off the island"  sorry, i just tivoed way too much lost, and the paranoia is starting to get to me.