TV Hell

Tue, 17 May 2005 14:55:13 +0200

It’s puzzling.

When sat at home absorbing the TV I get het up about so much crap going on in the world that I never stop sounding off about it. I put the world to rights. I execute wrongdoers, or wish I could, and reward the good guys. All of this takes place in my head of course. Perhaps I ought to seek therapy.

But sat here in front of a blog screen I can’t think of a damn thing to write about except my own inability to think of something to write about. Make sense? No, I didn’t think so.

Here’s the thing – and the clue is in the first sentence – I think I wasted any thinking ability I had in my childhood when I spent hours watching the box. My parents never did anything about it. In fact they encouraged it. It was a nice, convenient way of getting the kids out of their hair while they got on with the dinner or went down the pub.

So I ended up with a head full of bad TV programmes and an imagination so weak it can’t form a recognisable image and keep it formed for a few seconds at a time. And if I do manage an image its not of my making, its just a memory of something I once saw on the TV. All the time my thoughts or imagination are being dragged back to some re-hashed crap I saw on the TV 20 years ago.

My brain is occupied by enemy forces. Thoughts from another planet. Alien thought monsters. You can’t run away from them because they are inside you. Inside your thoughts. The ultimate predator eating out your brain from the inside. Draining off the one thing you could call your own – your thoughts, your imagination – and substituting it with mental mush, second rate thoughts from a tenth rate medium. Draining the life force. It is the Darth Vader of 20th century technology. It is Hell. It is TV Hell!

I am pretty sure a load of blame for the terrors that stalk the planet today can be laid at the foot of TV. Death to Logie Baird! If children are fed this appealing diet of instant gratification they don’t learn to use their own brains to make their own decisions. They take the easiest way out. They follow the leaders. They copy the violence or the degraded emotions presented to them on the crapbox. And in so doing becoming violent, degraded beings. The one thing we must all understand about ourselves is that mentally we are infinitely malleable. Brainwashing is the easiest thing in the world.

So we must take control. We must cultivate the right conditions around us, that we experience daily, to elevate our souls and ennoble our thoughts. That doesn’t happen with a daily diet of soap operas and cartoon violence.

You have been warned.

The next overheated rant in this irregular series of articles is due out shortly.

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