While watching the ‘ol boob tube, you have literally hundreds of options for what you want to watch. There are really shows for every taste; right wing, left wing, west wing! Shows for the homosexuals (not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld) and for the homophobic. For the old fashioned the fashion obsessed, a show called obsessed and shows about the obese. In this day and age we have more access to anything media related than ever before, and it’s still growing. I have only watched movies in the last few weeks; I don’t even have the ‘regular’ channels, why? Other than I’m a poor college student, I just don’t have the time or want.
At work the other day, the conversation over lunch went from television show to television show without missing a beat! When finally the conversation lagged a little I changed the subject to tell them about something I had done over the weekend; after I was done, one of the men asked, ‘wait, what show was that again?’ I had to laugh out loud because he hadn’t realized we had gone from the virtual world to the real world. This is just one example of how virtual our society has become, people forget they can actually go out and do things, not just live vicariously through the television set. If we were to only limit ourselves to that, well, we would begin to be one big confused mess of different shows trying to exist in a real society fighting with other shows for the ‘most popular girl’ award.
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