Cameron Chambers

the images move too fast...it is unsettling...and entirely too many commercials. In 1970 the typical 30 second spot had around 300 frames to it. Now, the typical 30 second spot has almost 3,000 frames to it. Is it any wonder younger populations are so severely ADD? If you grew up with television as your baby sitter, then you probably have bad wiring. Today's youth had their brains wired through a different process than their older contemporaries. Part of this is born out by the field of neurolinguistics. Many of us are sensitive to the constant flash of light and the endless drone of the changing images in today's commercials. This technique is something akin to brainwashing and post hypnotic suggestion, and is exactly how unwitting marketing and advertising executives have rewired certain receptors in our brains. Don't think for a minute that subliminal advertising is no longer around either. Commercials are killing me. They are presented with mind-numbing repetition. It feels like torture. But I still watch occasionally. But when the programmers change the nights of the shows, I always lose anything I was remotely (get it?) interested in. Television will be the death of civilization, and I am angry as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. Now that was a good movie. It even predicted reality television, which I hope is a quick blip on the radar. What we need are virtual reality shows, where we are all the star of our own dramas or sitcoms. Television had once been moderately entertaining. Now it is violence and gross stuff. What brilliant writer or director got the notion we want to see actors puke on cue? It is bad enough in cartoons. I would have to say puking less is good advice too. I can barely relate to television any more. Television is much worse than the movies, which are awful. I realize that most television shows are aimed at the young and the tweens, but there was a time when it was different. That time did not seem so long ago. Family entertainment now means that the parents are bored silly, or the show is so disgusting they won't let their kids watch. I finally broke down and purchsed a TIVO. It is not bad, but I don't exactly love it. I grew weary of watching the same three movies on Comedy Central over and over. "The OC," "Joe Dirt," and "Malibu's Most Wanted" are funny until you have seen them a dozen times. Now with TIVO, it's reruns of Becker, Green Acres, The Addams Family, and South Park. Television sucks. It needs to suck less. Maybe I'm just middle aged now and nobody told me. A stale, old fart hung in the air. "Will somebody cut him down please?"

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