Satellite Tv Is Shrinking Our World And Our Attention Spans

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.

One of the major things that changed is that the giants expanded, instead of restricted the choices people had as far as watching television programs. It was odd at first and people wondered why they were being given more programs to watch - and even stranger still - LOTS of food to eat.

I guess I'm afraid that Satellite T. V., like the internet, has created a sort of isolation among us. Even though it's made the world smaller and given us access to things many of us never would have dreamed of just 20 years ago, we've now become a bit complacent because of it. Why go out seeking the adventure when we can find it - and anything we want to know about it - right here in our living rooms?

There were so many programs that it was very exciting at first - seeing all kinds of people, places and situations that they had never seen before and then something new was introduced: A recorder that allowed people to tape their shows, so now they could actually get up to go to the bathroom (which was a HUGE relief!) or actually cook food instead of grabbing whatever quick to eat food was laying around.

After a while, though, some people started to get a little depressed. They were feeling like something was missing from their lives; they especially started to miss the outdoors and all their friend. They even wondered if they could maybe go back to work and do some of the other normal things they used to do before the giant came.

Even if you didn't have a television set, you're still subject to the distraction of the internet (unless you really want to plug out and not have one of those either). But you really could get away with just having a computer because practically all that you can see on television you can also now see on the internet.

Homes across the country, across the world for that matter, are sporting bigger and bigger televisions. Of course, to justify the size and snazziness of the set, there's got to be enough programming options to make it worth spending hours on end in front of it.

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.