Little Tiny Video: What Is It Good For?
Posted: 6/4/11
The world is full of really clever people who come up with brilliant ideas that prove the point that just because we can do something is insufficient reason to go ahead and do it.
The entertainment factories are running under full forced draft, churning out mindless, hormonal based videos, cartoons, music, movies, sports spectaculars and colorful demagogues strutting about stirring up folks with their comedic versions of news reporting. Desperate for advertising dollars the producers of said content frantically search out ever more and creative mechanisms for ramming their creative crap down the hapless consumer's throat.
Today's market is awash in super sophisticated devices that can snatch a three hour movie, NFL football game or NASCAR race off the internet and present it in eye squinting video and tinny audio to the masses, who are being pounded in commercial after CGI effected commercial with the message that this is the absolutist most coolest thing ever. The kids can't wait to get their sweaty little hands around the latest device that will somehow render the little nerds as "cool", then, once the new wears off and the next miracle device rockets down the marketeering pipeline they toss it to badger the parentals for the new Chinese grown junk.
Americans do Big Spectacle better than even the ancient Romans, but spectacle tends to lose it's sparkle on a three inch screen with microscopic speakers. To begin with, if there is something on TV that I want to invest life-span in then I want to be in my command-chair recliner, before the biggest screen I can afford, surrounded by Big Sound. My viewing pleasure pretty well demands an uninterrupted three or four hour time window so as to enjoy to the fullest the particular Big Spectacle that I'm so eagerly awaiting. If for some reason I can't be taking it easy in the command chair then there is a good reason, perhaps several good reasons, why I can't be there. One of them may be driving; not a good idea to be navigating speedway traffic while trying to watch the last lap at Talladega, the closing minutes of the Super Bowl or even the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Thing is, if you can't be in optimum conditions for Big Spectacle then DVR the thing, watch it later. And if you are just watching You Tube videos on your very own silly little screen then that means your bored and shouldn't be where your at anyways.
Go home; watch TV, the real one.
My Point Being:
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For an indicator of how much respect the American people receive from their government, news outlets and entertainment media just watch fifteen minutes of American TV and all those dirty little suspicions will be confirmed.
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