30 Days

30 Days is a show created by Morgan Spurlock, the man who ate nothing but McD's in the documentary Super Size Me. If you're A.D.D. like me, you truly admire anyone who does anything for a week, let alone a full 30 days. For 30 days, Morgan's recruits go through some interesting situations:

• A man with staunch anti-illegal immigration views moves in with a family of illegal immigrants.



• A computer programmer who was displaced by Indian programmers moves to Bangalore to live with an Indian family and work in a call center.



• An atheist moves in with a family of evangelical Christians.



• A stressed-out, short-fused dad skeptical of new-age therapies submits to 30 days of new-age rituals, culminating in a fire-walk over hot coals.



• A pro-choice feminist lives in a Christian pro-life maternity home.



• Morgan Spurlock spends 30 days as an inmate.

I applaud Morgan's efforts to bring more understanding to the world. All too often, viewpoints are manipulated until we have nothing but polarizing, right or wrong and nothing in-between debates. I don't believe that Morgan advocates one viewpoint or another in these shows - quite the opposite. He shows that people of seemingly opposing viewpoints can co-exist, and even like one another.

Link: The 30 Days Ning Group