On Television

I didn't believe it was possible, but someone turned the TV off and never turned it back on.

I started thinking about this today because American Idol is all over the news, again. I’m almost embarrassed to admit I have never seen it. Survivor? Nope. The Apprentice? Nope. I moved back to the US in 1999, but after 9/11 I decided I didn’t want to watch television anymore. If they had the audacity to replay the scene of those planes hitting the World Trade Center over and over again, with no respect to the poor people whose friends and family had been on those planes, well then I thought television had sunk to a level of disassociation from humanity I didn’t want to be a part of anymore. So i turned it off. And I kept it off.