Television. It sucks your will to live. It eats your time while you sit passively, brain in neutral, mouth slack and just experience someone elses idea of what you like.
I really liked TV One's ad campaign a while back that said "your brain is the most important instrument you own, be careful what you put in it." (Or something like that, I don't remember the exact wording.) I dislike TV on principal but I can sit and drool with the best of them.
For the main part I don't watch TV. I don't like the things that are on. (Fear Factor? Special Victims Unit? Crocodile HUnter? Ewwwww!) I feel morally superior for not watching TV. Even though this means there are conversations I can't join in on, like 'Have you seen that new add..." and "Did you catch CSI last night?" I don't feel like I'm missing out. On the contrary I am above such things.
Of course, there are TV programmes I am quite passionate about. Buffy is my religion practically. I like Father Ted, Scrubs, Simpsons, Cowboy Bebop.
So it's all paradoxical.
I wonder what would happen after tea if no-one could turn on the TV. Would everyone be writing music, poetry, novels? Creating works of art?
I guess everyone who could would hop onto the internet. Then there's reading, attending movies...
There's heaps of other things people *could* be doing, but everyone just sits down and switches off for a few hours then goes to bed. Turn on, Tune out.
TV is oogie.
The End.
Posted by jenni at October 3, 2003 10:36 AM