The Television is Evil

How can a bunch of transistors, diodes and plastic be evil? I used to be just like you and intellectualize such questions a lot. One day, I was crossing the road with an empty mind and along came to this smashing conclusion. And autorickshaw horns. The television is evil. Let me put some ground work, stay with me. How do you know you are in an environment influenced by man? Answer: You begin to see very perfect looking polygons all around you. More specifically, rectangles. What is common between buildings, doors, windows, paintings, Tata Sumo, refrigerators, tables, A4 sheets, roads, books, stairs and chocolates? Right, they are all rectangles. And along comes a television- a rectangle but more.

The television is a device made out of tiny diodes which flicker through some scheme in magical ways and out comes this audiovisual news anchor in a smart coat screaming at you that the country is in perils. If you are curious, you would come really close to the television screen and touch your eyeballs on it. You will notice, as your eyeballs dry, that the television screen is just a collection of tightly separated dots flickering really fast. On the sides of the screen you will probably find slots emitting sound. If you slow down the sound, you can almost always hear a retarded elephant trying to explain something. On the other hand, if you increase the speed of the play, the same elephant sounds high on helium. Such is the evil of television, they just have the right audio frequency and visual flickering speed to trap you. Those pieces of transistors and diodes know what you dig.

And God said, ‘Let there be some television channels ’

It is a choice that you are presented with. A choice is provided by the powerful entity to a less powerful entity if it is in his interest to keep the weaker one playing the game and not back out and think for itself. Hence, instead of switching the television off, you are given options to view sports, drama, cartoons, music videos and animals and what not. A healthy amount of research has shown that this illusion of so much choice creates a psychological sink around you. Have you ever noticed the exhaustion that you feel in your muscles when you want to move away from the television? And have you noticed the kind of humour that these television channels serve you? If you have even a bone of integrity, it would make you want to lay down, roll over and sink your teeth in your own ass. The amount of junk that people are filling themselves with is astonishing. And that is how people become junkies. I myself know men and women who will watch television non-stop till old age. It takes a supreme will power to overcome the attraction and persuasion of the television. I have been inside the trap and want to congratulate myself and you if you have left the stink called television, too.