I Hate or Love Television?!?!?!?
Human culture arose as we conquered the basics of survival. Once we no longer had to struggle, we almost immediately grew bored. We spent a huge amount of time creating entertaining distractions.Enter TELEVISION...[From here on in referred to as 'TV' as I've being rendered lazy to use 4 syllable words - an after effect of progress in current society]
What is a TV? Simple defined, it is a box for watching pictures on. Another definition would state that its a devise which inside electromagnetic fields guide electrons towards a phosphorous screen covered in thousands of minute coloured dots. Which the human brain, interprets as a moving picture.
This electronic device has transformed our lives, our society and in extension our world. It yields tremendous power. Less and less of us read books or newspapers, most of the information we get is from TV. Put another way, it is the gospel, the ultimate revelation - the most awesome God-damn force in this whole godless world. What about the Internet I can hear you thinking -NO, you are wrong.For now anyway.For you see there is something special about TV that you may not realise.[Will allude to what this is in a bit]
How We Watch Television
One of the best ways to relax after our daily struggles to obtain clothing, food, shelter and a mate is to watch varied simulations of others in those same struggles. TV sometimes draws us together by giving us a pretext to socialise with each other, but in a larger sense, it serves to keep us apart, by immersing us so thoroughly in fantasy that it seems more fun to stay in.
A flick of the switch, and you're sucked into a smaller than life world controlled by unseen forces. The existential crisis that was filling your brain is instantly soothed, and the burden of free-will, lightened and crystallised into the simple dilemma of whether or not to change channels.
The unique character of TV is this, it is a 'Trojan Horse' ,a friendly offering turned vicious within the privacy of peoples sitting room. It now resembles an amusement park, a circus, a carnival with story tellers, dancers, singers, side-show freaks and football players. TV it seems has become all we know, and people are beginning to believe the illusions that it spins. People believe that the tube is reality and that there own lives are unreal. Some dress like the people they see on TV, while some raise there kids like what they see on TV.Its fucking mass madness.We sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, creed and colour, while this invader from the public domain, disseminates an endless stream of potentially corrupting programmes.
*So there you have it...what to do about it is up to you. Of-course This is an observation and therefore just an opinion. I could be completely wrong. Let me know what you think or don't.*
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