Devastation Media

As people, we are obsessed with television and lives as seen on TV. It goes beyond lines of country, culture, or creed. I have been to many places in my travels, and in every one of them, have found the same thing. Popular entertainment in a box. Who would have thought that the technology isn’t even a century old.

It amazes me to think of what the television has become – buddy, court jester, news hub, predictor of weather and traffic – it is all these things and more. We rely on it to tell us what goes on in the world beyond us. We use it to bring us into the spirit of seasons via scary movies for Halloween or uplifting ones for Christmas. When it’s too silent, we break it with the familiar voices of our favorite sitcom characters. With the more recent addition of reality shows, we even peer into the unscripted lives of other people as seen on TV.

Sometimes I wonder what anyone did in 1903. What life was like without this ever present source of everything. Was it better or worse? It must have been more of a social event. More interaction between families and friends. More time out of the house. More time living life through ones own eyes instead of getting sucked into a voyeuristic frenzy. More doing less sitting around and watching others do and live and love as seen on TV. Maybe things weren’t so bad as they were. I’ll consider it more later. “Roseanne” is on now.

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