I think that TV gives us a pretty good picture of what is happening in our country today.
Feed the Hungry ...... who else would they feed, but the hungry.
A program where they sell nothing but wrist watches, EXPENSIVE watches, EXPENSIVE BIG watches, nobs and dials, some with diamonds, some very expensive, who buys all those watches. I have one that I got at Walmart for $5.00 on sale, works find, just needs batteries on occasions. In my younger Nevada days, I had a 33 diamond watch, all gold, a few thousand and back in the fifties that was a LOT of money. It was in a pawnshop more than on my wrist. But I still only had one watch.
A 24 hour a day shopping channel.
A channel where some woman devotes her whole show to CRIME, preferably CELEBRITY CRIME. Lost children, lost people sensational stories, she makes a living off of them.
I talent show, where people of questionable talent are judged by three people who have NO talent, and they make major dollars doing it.
There are millions of Americans, and millions of people elsewhere who will go to bed tonight, hungry, with no food and no hope of getting any. All the while, some guy is deciding which $5000 watch he should buy. There just seems to be something wrong with that picture.
There are shows about multi-million dollar homes and apartments, one last night, I think it was a 6 million dollar apartment in New York, and the guy thought the kitchen (which was elaborate) was too small, yet millions of people are homeless and have nowhere to sleep.
One show about Celebrity Digs, shows homes of guys who play basketball for a living, or a musician who plays LOUD music, or sings, makes millions, and cannot even carry a tune, now race car drivers are getting into that category, ENTERTAINMENT ... in one form or another.
Then a show about parents who SELL their children, one about homeless children who are wondering the streets, hungry. One show featured orphans, who are in homes, but when they turn 18, I think it was, they have no place to go so they become homeless and wonder the streets.
I'm not even going to mention politicians, I put them a peg or two BELOW, the underworld, Mafia, gangland, whatever, they admit what they do, politicians hide under an umbrella of respectability. They both feed on the public, so I guess there is no real difference.
Are we a great country, or what?
