Moaning about TV: give it up!
TV is incredible. I am sick of people moaning about how terrible and awful it is, and so I am bucking the trend here – as is obvious – by having a good rant, firstly, about how amazingly wonderful it is.
And it is. Wonderful, I mean.
To appreciate just how wonderful, you really need to think and un-do everything you know about TV.
Imagine we live in a world where TV was never invented. There was never the rush to get home for Eastenders…
would you have wanted to be born pre TV? When disease ravaged the earth and left each and every one of us in a right old state?
…and there was never the need to remember to tape Grand Designs. In fact, that corner of the room we all stare into? It was filled with nothing. And in fact we wouldn’t even notice it’s lack of anything, because it was never full in the first place!
Seriously, TV is great: anything you want to watch – from babes prancing about to gardening or documentaries on Space travel – is there at the touch of a button. It’s all so simple, so impossibly simple…
And now, for some bizarre reason, people say it is bad. That having the TV is a curse. That the TV is stopping people from getting exercise. That we are a generation of so-called ’couch potatoes'that can’t be bothered to do anything if it involves actually getting up off our butts…
I say WAKE UP and understand just what TV is all about, and how beneficial it can be to so many different kinds of people. I say, would you have wanted to be born pre TV? When disease ravaged the earth and left each and every one of us in a right old state? I think not, somehow. In fact, I highly doubt that anyone, given the choice, would want to live in that time.
And take shows like Embarrassing Bodies, for example. Not only is it great to laugh at people with hideous conditions – I know it’s wrong, but are you honestly telling me you don’t? – but it’s highly educational. And one great thing about always being connected to the box is that you always know what is going on in the world. A blessing if ever there was one, right?
For now I am off to visit a website – http://www.theoldbridgehousehotel.co.uk/en/webcam , to be precise – but I do hope that if you’re a TV hater you will start re-thinking your hatred of TV. After all, there isn’t anything you can’t learn from it!
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