Thread: The TV is an addiction...but thanks to the WWW, I am rehabilitated

Today I saw a funny but ironically true video which gave me the idea to write this article in same tone. Before reading further, I suggest you to watch this video: Vimeo Staff Picks on Vimeo

Alienating... That is the word that best define the television format. And the fault is so much alienation of those who have become what today are... viewers.

Yes, because we devour television products are the real culprits that our idiot box has become a disaster box, combining the most varied and confused human misery, vanities exorbitant, cultural and political manipulation, the Bollywood gossip, the non-stop cricket with IPL as cherry on the cake, King Akbar and Lord Krishna, the princesses in the fairy tale, the information they give in any news, and many note , humorists are now humourless and serious characters are laughable ...

A fauna nurtured by our lack of cultural ambition, for our intellectual laziness, which makes us fodder for addictions, we are transformed into simplistic banalities eaters of dung; that our life is immersed in the depths of our chairs...

But the TV is in crisis. The channels are trying to find King Solomon's mines that provide them with funding and resources to continue producing and reproducing that knocked us alienating. The proliferation of channels, the economic crisis and the Internet, has raised a combination of circumstances that put in jeopardy the status quo of the cathodic illusions traffickers.

Look at me! It is the agonizing cry of that being who lives behind the plasmas and lcd's in our living rooms, kitchens, offices, bedrooms and even bathrooms ... Look at me! because you’ve eyes and it costs money to reproduce ...

Television is in crisis (like everything else, I guess). But it is not an economic crisis. It's much more.

Television is going through a time of bankruptcy in its content model. The malpractice conducted by the heads of the chains over recent years has given rise to a monster alienated public appeal. People have become accustomed to a form of easy consumption, in which the reasoning is conspicuous by its absence. Consumed, and ball point.

But the multiplication of the loaves and fish-shaped channels, "has led to this being alienated holding the control of a remote control that allows you to travel (read --> channel surfing) and select. Hence begins a process of reversal of the model, since the viewer is minimally required to use their brain to decide... Travel well, through an increasingly wider tour that lets you compare, discern and choose. And in the election for the first time in a long time, this new viewer begins to show signs that quality will prevail over banality.

To make matters worse, Internet flooded homes, and what was utopia, now becomes reality ... This viewer can not just choose what he will see, but now he can choose when to do it and where, since the introduction of Internet to televisions, it's a reality.

This is chaos... Blessed chaos.

It is time to take command. Require a change in the funds and shapes. And do it the best possible way: by becoming active spectators who decide what, how, when and where we want TV content and, above all, the quality we want in them.

It's our time, television has been a drug that has alienated several generations of viewers... A drug that hooked me long ago. Now I'm the decider, also because I have ADSL internet... Although they say that it is also a drug. But nothing happens. Look, I control!

Well. I am addicted to www. What detox program do you suggest?
Whether TV or www. each one is an addiction of its own kind. Only we have to exercise self control!