important issues 10

(first written 10-27-2006)

I guess this entire thing is about the rapid advancement of entertainment technology and the unnecessary-ness of it.

Rarely is money an issue when it comes to buying video games. I’m not saying they aren’t expensive, but if they are truly wanted by the entire family, something happens to get them. More often however, is that the parents do not want to have their kids wasting their time playing video games. I think there is a second truth also. If the family only has one TV, the video games control it. And if a parent wants to watch TV, they have to kick their kids of their games, a difficult task in its own right.

Someone on PBS openly admitted that their support came from viewers who are dependant on television. Why not be blunter and say funding comes from fat-asses.

There is a song called ‘throw away your television’ that can never have a music video.

It’s true that we have become insanely dependant on TV for all sources of life including news, sports, entertainment, and stupidity. Sadly, all the former things come from the FOX network and you still have 6,000 different channels. Worse still, some channels only play music. Do you understand that? They only play music? No video, no picture of the artist, or pictures of anything. Just a blank screen! There used to be something very similar that was very popular through the 30s up until about 1968. I forgot…. Oh wait, It’s called a radio! So now we have TV stations that are trying to be radios. And if you’ll notice, you don’t see radios trying to do the opposite. You rarely see a radio trying to show you the singers and their over the top videos. You know why you don’t see it? Because it doesn’t exist!

There is entirely too much reliance on television. As a wise man once said: my life may be boring, but at least I’m content to live it. I guess what I’m trying to explain by making up my own quote is to stop living vicariously through the people you only know by image and continue your own life. It misses you.

-Sam D.