The bigger problem is the amount of garbage that we watch. I yell with my wife about this all the time. Yes, we both yell, yet agree. We're passionate about this topic. The fact we have dog themed tv channels proves to me that these companies are hell bent on making money off anything and everything.
The problem is that we, the viewers, have become so disjointed in our daily lives that we watch this junk. When water cooler talk includes Caesar Milan, The Kardashians (the fact alone that my phone knows how to auto spell Kardashian), Ryan Seacrest, Teen Moms, Jerry Springer, WWE, and whatever else is just thrown in our faces, over what is happening outside in the actual real world, is a damn shame.
We are living in Ray Bradbury's Farinheit 451. There is a whole world spinning around us, yet we are to fixated on the big screens that are taking up our walls. And, the only time we formulate an opinion on an actual important topic is when the images on the wall tell us to, which includes their telling us what to think. Seriously?
I'm sorry. I know this is a rant, but the fact that your wife broke down in tears over the possibility of not getting to watch Family Therapy just adds to my point that we have an issue in our society of mass addiction to anything and everything that is put on television. I get yelled at for smoking my cigars, yet am in shape, and the people yelling at me are out of shape from countless hours of tv watching. I love how they tell me about the ways they would survive the Walking Dead, as they wiggle and waddle off their couches to get another bag of chips, so they can continue to binge watch season 3.
"You shouldn't smoke (Fat Man), it's not good for you." "You're right, but neither is that fourth bag of Lays."
Trust me folks, I was one of "those" people, when the sun hurts your eyes from never seeing it, and you are short of breath from walking to the bathroom, you change a lot things...or you die.
Rant over.