Of being treated like a complete imbecile by television? You know what I mean. The commercials who are trying to shill their latest product to you becaue you are a complete idiot and cant live without it. You know you need it because god forbid you have to crack an egg and actually cook it without causing severe psychological damage to yourself and being percieved as a failure as a human being......Oh, the horror.
Television, it seems, is beginning to pander to the lowest common denominator. It has become the colliseum games of this era. Its designed to give mass entertainment to the unwashed who just want to turn off thier brains and forget about their lives. If it wasnt how do you explain reality shows like Survivor, Ice Road Truckers, Dog the bounty hunter, American Chopper, American Idol, Ice Pilots, Instant beauty pagent, Operation Repo, Say yes to the Dress, Toddlers and Tairas, Maury Povich, Gerry Springer and anything on E! channel, just to name a few.
Whatever happened to entertainment? Where are the TV shows that were designed to make us think or give us a laugh without it being at another humans expense.
Out of the two hundred or so channels that the cable company makes me subscribe to just so I can watch the 5 that I like, there is nothing that equates to quality TV on the mainstream channels. In order to get good thought provoking programs you need to have the "specialty" channels like National Geographic Channel, Science Channel, Discovery World, History Channel and HDNet, again just to name a few. Then and only then you get something that will make you perk up and say "wow".
Maybe its time to turn off the TV, go outside and shield your eyes from the sun and see whats actually going on in the world, instead of some programmers perception of what the world is.
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