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Simple pleasures over television
All the makings of an NC-17 rated feature film or television’s equivalent–the prime-time news. See pain, torture and death here–first, fast and live at five. Write a poem, read a book. Pick up an instrument, listen to a CD. Go visit an old friend and catch up on old times over sushi and saki bombers. See a play. Hike. Call your mom. Meet your neighbors. Try cooking. Go to a poetry slam or punk show. Take a ceramics, yoga, tai’ chi class. Go out and hit on the hottest girl or guy, (no, they’re not too good for you). Don’t buy into the Nike hype and swallow ads like smooth, creamy, reduced fat Yoplait yogurt–on sale now in your grocer’s dairy section. Think of the lousiest person in all your class, and write crap about them until your hand cramps up. Just kill the broadcast. Don’t kill your TV because it’s not all evil IQ sucking hypno-box it’s played out to be. I enjoy my own guilty pleasures from time to time. Who can refuse ring-tailed lemurs on the Discovery Channel, or old lady face-life/hip replacement surgery on Discover Health? Not all television is evil. But when the Discovery Channel is showing African Lions mating, make your housecat go in the other room if he’s under 18? Don’t kill your television. Kill what’s inside. Too many people in today’s society want to blame everything on TV. To a degree, they’re right. Yes, if it wasn’t for the press cramming Columbine down our throats, or every school shooting since, then the demand for killing our fellow students would diminish. The shock of kids killing kids will lose its luster. We don’t hear about drive-by shootings anymore, do we? If you think that TV is going to change on its own, you probably have the rationality of a molded grapefruit. TV changes with the demands put on it by society. We are part of that populous. We are society. We need to demand a change in programming. Throw away the frivolous, stupid sitcoms, and then the overview special of the cheerleading squad featured on any XFL telecast. If you are happy with what television is force-feeding you, then you are a molded grapefruit. Justin Lambright is a columnist for the Mesa Legend and a communications major at MCC. |
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