| TV's In Cars: Have We Lost Our Minds? Fall 2003 Can someone please tell me what the hell is up with these TV's I'm suddenly seeing in every fucking car in this town? Is this happening across the country? Are dealerships giving these away? I am absolutely annoyed with this shit, and it must be stopped! I want to be sure I'm getting this straight: it isn't enough that we have thousands of fat kids who don't play outdoors enough to enjoy the sunshine and get their asses moving; it isn't enough that we give kids mindless video games so that soon enough they can combat giant red monsters or shoot like snipers, but they can't do basic math; it isn't enough that kids spend hundreds of hours a month zoned out in front of the TV watching mindless crap -- now we have to put TV's in cars, too? Right, because obviously kids aren't getting enough quality time with Yu Gi Oh! What a fucking vapid nation we are. This is what we've come to. Heaven forbid we actually use travel time to -- and here's a crazy concept -- TALK to each other. Fuck no, let's pop in the digitally remastered Lion King and be done with it. And I wonder, is there a safety factor involved in this? I swear that some TV's look like they're positioned so that the driver can watch, too! And why the fuck not? We drive and put on make up, shave, talk on the phone and eat, so why not watch TV, too? It's shit like this that annoys me to no end and at the same time amazes the shit out of me. I think that such a seemingly inconsequential thing says an awful lot about the kind of people we've become. And none of it is good. |
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