The entertainment that isn’t!

After a long time I actually got time to sit in front of a television for a certain span of time every day and automatically my brain started analyzing what was going on.
The only positive part about it was I saw some movies, again, and again, and again until a point where you just change the channel when you read the name of the movie under the screen.

Elsewhere there were reality (?) Shows. These actually make the viewer reach out for a pen and paper to jot down new ways of killing one self. Why? Well for once they call that (shit) reality!
Take a bunch of whacko’s, shove them in a cramped space make them fight and bicker about nonsense and boom! You got yourself a million hits on YouTube and even more so on your  viewer list!

Our own lives are already filled with so much tangle to unwind but still the human brain cannot help but binge on the problems faced by some innocent looking female at the hands of a vamp or a scornful in-law. This happens specifically with the female counterpart of our species. They just love to stay bewildered as to what might happen next and the soap operas stretch more than the little chewing gum you can buy for a penny.

Bram stoker. This dude comes up with a fictional concept that in no time engulfs the world. Gets cult following and in a few decades you have the once so scary vampires shining like maggots in sunshine. And then you get “oooh’s” and “aah’s” in the theater when an actress with constipation prone expressions representing this generations’ girls who just loves a pale zombie that could just bless you if you give him a sandwich and also loves a hippy who turns into a were-pooch (those never look like wolves) with invisible pants!
What nonsense!

Another funny side of television I came across was the news! And I can literally go on for another five pages on this one.
There is actually news about what’s gonna happen in some forgotten celebrity’s life. There’s interviews about separatists but no interviews about suicidal farmers. There is no news about world affairs but there is ample information given about what new technology the defence mechanism of a country is implementing to fight non existent enemy in a hypothetical war!
Specs of top secret weapons, defence tactics etc. What is the need to tell the world; “hey bro, come on gimme your best shot!”

Changing channels I come across the so called scientific channels. And what do I see? A full length documentary about comic book heroes or some guy either buying, selling or restoring junk!

Bored to death I then come to music channels that hardly play any good music. Instead they too have their own versions of reality shows with even more mind numbing concepts.
And the music that they Sometimes show the mercy of playing is a playlist of roughly 10/15 songs that repeat all day long, like a gramophone that gets stuck after the pin hits a mark and reloads from the bigening!

Lost and heartbroken I then switch to the cartoon channels hoping to get nostalgic. But there’s only cheap Japanese manga that makes you keep hitting the next button on your remote.
Gone are the days when Walt Disney and Hanna Barbara studios came up with infinite number of ideas that made you get scolded by your parents for not studying!

No wonder the intellectual masses are slowly moving away from the television to the Internet! And the poor population is glued to their screens trying to convince themselves that they are enjoying what they see

Gone are the days when you had popcorn and soda, sat on the couch to see something that made sense.

Disheartened I switched it off, made a cuppa coffee and went in the balcony to  watch the rains and some kids splashing around in a little puddle and having a time of their lives.

And finally that  ..  .was entertainment!

The Waterman