Good Ol' Fashion Values (remixed)

You know what really grinds my gears?...
The past few decades have ushered in a new perspective of entertainment and ethics. Television is affecting our social order more and more especially with the recent introduction to 3D and Internet television. All of these improvements have been the off spring of bigger, more high definition televisions that came into affect around the year 2000. A decade later and we have seen a boost in obesity rates along side the increasing number of t.v. shows.
Remember when children use to watch cartoons like "Tom and Jerry" or the "Animaniacs". These shows were criticized for sending a violent message to the youth of this nation and before a blink of an eye these shows were pulled from broadcasting. In their place came multiple cartoons depicting women with size zero waists and large cone shaped breasts. We have moved from a violent mind based society to a sexual mind based society and neither is better than the other. Maybe both might be alright in moderation but these simply took each others place as pop culture necessities.
I have also been witnessing a corrupt market taking advantage of consumers as we slowly climb out of an economic slump. Not only will you find yourself spending over a thousand dollars for a "sweet" set up in your man cave, a cable bill over one hundred dollars will appear in the mail month after month as you attempt to luxuriate your viewing pleasure with Internet and High Def signals. Did you know that if not for the cable company, such as Comcast and Qwest, you would be receiving free HD signals sent to your house from space. These entertainment moguls have figured our a way to make you pay for these signals; they scramble the signal intentionally before it reaches your home to make the HD signal seem not as clear, then they offer you a de-scrambler box for a price added to your services. Then will you only see what was meant to be seen. If you are brave enough to buy one of those new 3D televisions you will be certain to spend around four hundred bucks just for a couple pair of viewing glasses, and without these your t.v. is just as plain as the rest. This is complete exploitation of consumer ignorance.
I try as hard as possible to refrain from watching reality show, and I am my self a victim of over spending on self entertainment. But when taking in consideration the amount of money spent and hours of life wasted on the couch, I would have to say I am not pleased with the outcome. I seem to find silly shows like "Family Guy" and "South Park" viable simply for the fact that they poke fun at many of the things I have mentioned above. With humor and exaggerated plots I think shows like this give Americans an outside perspective of our culture. It really makes you think about how we operate and thrive as a country. http://www.memeticians.com/2008/04/the-downfall-of-cable-televisi.php