How do you view American television?
A poison hypnotist most-effective-propaganda-device-ever-devised that has borne out Newton Minow's label "vast wasteland" many times over. The electronic Soma installed to keep the drones drones.
"To me there's something incredibly sad about a bunch of human beings sitting down watching something take place.... the spectacle of millions and millions of people sitting in movie theaters and in front of television sets every night, watching
a second or third-hand reproduction of reality going on, when the real world is right there in their living room, or right outside on the street or down the block somewhere... I think it's a tool to sonombulize or hypnotize people into kind of a waking sleep." --- Jim Morrison,
1970
America is, after all, more multi-cultural than any other nation in the world,
I don't think that's even remotely close, no.
And television serves to destroy whatever diversity exists, or at the least, to reduce it to two opposing poles, that they may be pitted one against the other. For television thrives above all on the idea of conflict. It feeds the vicarious.
How I view American television is that six months ago I cancelled my cable service because there's absolutely NOTHING worth watching.
Me too. I fired my TV when it dawned on me that 99% of the crap on there was worthless, and the 1% I might be interested in is on the internet, where I can choose it selectively.
