So Many TV Networks To Choose From!
What if we were confined to watching only-God forbid-one TV network? Say, for example, we give up living in the speed culture, forgo the high tech highway, and move to a remote area where finances don’t allow for the luxury of cable or satellite and therefore reception allows for only one TV network. Even if we had a choice, of which station that would be, we might be quite devastated by the sudden loss of hundreds of channels that previously spoiled us.
Yet, the very thing that I had only imagined, was put into action just a few days ago. I was unable to continue my “writing” work in peace, what with all the varied noises surrounding me–deafening music, equally noisy dogs, drunken fights, and so on! Deciding to experiment, and wishing to have some peace and quiet for my writing work, I went ahead and bought a little trailer to journey into the unknown! The idea was to go as deep into the woods as possible to escape from noisy civilization and noisy conversations!
So the first night here, despite the hundreds of other necessary boxes and bundles crying out for re-settling, my friend hooked up my TV and handed me the remote, saying that for now I had to deal with what I had. After they left, having spent all day lumping insane numbers of books and all, I clicked the remote. Not used to the new satellite dish system or remote, I had no understanding of the digits you have to push to change channels. So I was stuck on one channel, which happened to be an encore action channel showing a marathon of anime. So. Until my friends returned to help me hook up more and completely-in a few days, as they were now an hour and a half away by car-I had to listen to explosions, screams, and gunshotsagain.
This got me thinking. It was similar to a situation where I could imagine a boat that could carry only seven people. Now, there were ten of us who had to get into that boat. So a few would have to be abandoned. Thus, who would get in and who would stay? Of course, this was only a hypothetical situation created for some practice in mental dynamics, but TV networks also caused the same confusion! IF I had to be asked which TV network would go with me into the woods, which one would I select? Would I like to view educational and informative channels that could be quite entertaining too? Or would I prefer the double advantage of news coupled with Reality TV? If I hated commercial breaks, I could opt for Turner Movie Classics? Then, again, Indy Channel was not so bad either! Whatever I chose, I had reason to be grateful that we were provided with so many TV networks to choose from!
Argh. I cannot decide. Can you? Thank God and the network powers that be, as well as the many stupendous artists, that we have more than one optionthat we have hundreds.
