Its hard to believe there was a time when there were only 3 big networks and 6 or 7 channels available on television. There were only a handful of extremely popular shows that just about everybody watched and those shows were the most talked about items in offices and stores everywhere. People rushed home to see their favorite shows until the VCR came along but then our options opened up quite a bit more once cable and satellite tv came along.
I agree that choices are good, but the volume of choices available now as far as television is concerned is quickly approaching the ridiculous. There's just not enough time in the day - or in a lifetime, for that matter - to take advantage of all of the programming that we now have available at our fingertips.
The biggest concern, I think, is that things such as satellite tv, just like the internet, is such a huge distraction for many of us that we have built something of a bubble around our everyday lives. Young people, especially, are a lot less apt to venture out into the world that they can now so easily reach by just flipping on the television or logging on to their computers.
The options are seemingly endless. If we're bored with surfing the internet, we can turn on the T. V. And choose from as host of programs that are available not just on satellite television but also On Demand, Cable and Pay Per View. It probably takes as much time to decide what to watch as it does to actually sit down and watch a full program.
There was a time when you could simply choose not to participate - just not order the satellite or cable service. Now, amazingly, it's not even possible anymore to get any sort of television programming for free. To get even the local affiliates of the major networks, you HAVE TO subscribe to what's now considered "basic cable." Unbelievable.
So, since they hadn't seen the giants in a while, many people slowly began to venture outside their homes. They were quickly frightened back inside however. It turns out that the giants were outside lurking. They informed anyone that came out of their house that it was against the rules to leave. They said that if anyone came outside again, they would make the people pay. So everyone stayed inside.
In the average American home these days, you will find super-sized television sets all decked out with the latest technology and programming packages from cable or satellite t. V. Companies. Some people even upgrade their sets every year to keep up with the latest and greatest in the world of electronics.
The giants laughed and told them that their sets were hungry so that's why their tummies were getting bigger and bigger. In order to feed the T. V. Sets that needed to get food from the giants. And in order to get food from the giants, they had to work for him. So now they were stuck. They had to do all kinds of hard and menial work for the giants day in and day out. They had to work long hours in order to earn enough to pay for their T. V.'s food. They needed a lot of food to keep those T. V. S satisfied, as they were always VERY hungry.
This went on for years, until one day, some people finally said "no more!" They devised a plan to break all of their giant sets into tiny little pieces and the piles were so high and heavy that they were able to crush the giants with the weight of them. After the giants were gone, everybody decided they'd had enough T. V. Already to last the rest of their lives. No one ever watched television again.
I agree that choices are good, but the volume of choices available now as far as television is concerned is quickly approaching the ridiculous. There's just not enough time in the day - or in a lifetime, for that matter - to take advantage of all of the programming that we now have available at our fingertips.
The biggest concern, I think, is that things such as satellite tv, just like the internet, is such a huge distraction for many of us that we have built something of a bubble around our everyday lives. Young people, especially, are a lot less apt to venture out into the world that they can now so easily reach by just flipping on the television or logging on to their computers.
The options are seemingly endless. If we're bored with surfing the internet, we can turn on the T. V. And choose from as host of programs that are available not just on satellite television but also On Demand, Cable and Pay Per View. It probably takes as much time to decide what to watch as it does to actually sit down and watch a full program.
There was a time when you could simply choose not to participate - just not order the satellite or cable service. Now, amazingly, it's not even possible anymore to get any sort of television programming for free. To get even the local affiliates of the major networks, you HAVE TO subscribe to what's now considered "basic cable." Unbelievable.
So, since they hadn't seen the giants in a while, many people slowly began to venture outside their homes. They were quickly frightened back inside however. It turns out that the giants were outside lurking. They informed anyone that came out of their house that it was against the rules to leave. They said that if anyone came outside again, they would make the people pay. So everyone stayed inside.
In the average American home these days, you will find super-sized television sets all decked out with the latest technology and programming packages from cable or satellite t. V. Companies. Some people even upgrade their sets every year to keep up with the latest and greatest in the world of electronics.
The giants laughed and told them that their sets were hungry so that's why their tummies were getting bigger and bigger. In order to feed the T. V. Sets that needed to get food from the giants. And in order to get food from the giants, they had to work for him. So now they were stuck. They had to do all kinds of hard and menial work for the giants day in and day out. They had to work long hours in order to earn enough to pay for their T. V.'s food. They needed a lot of food to keep those T. V. S satisfied, as they were always VERY hungry.
This went on for years, until one day, some people finally said "no more!" They devised a plan to break all of their giant sets into tiny little pieces and the piles were so high and heavy that they were able to crush the giants with the weight of them. After the giants were gone, everybody decided they'd had enough T. V. Already to last the rest of their lives. No one ever watched television again.
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