The TV Mania

Recently I read an article where the TV was deemed as the evil ghost in people’s homes whose goal is to simply make us cry and rot our brain cells. However, I felt that it was a highly subjective topic that had partial truth attached to it, ignoring certain important aspects where the TV’s actually friendly. It all depends on how we use it. To elaborate that, here are some points that provide a different angle on the ‘Idiot-Box’.

Distractor

We are not supposed to do something productive all the time. We need distractions. Yes, we have the internet but it widens our choices and forces us to take a decision before we even start. Even if we start with any random video, it’s gonna play/show the related ones. Human beings generally like randomness. Why else do we have the shuffle option on the music apps? How do we get randomness on the internet?. This kind of decision-making before even wanting to chillax simply kills the chilling mood that we sometimes we might end up watching nothing.

Connector

TV helps in bringing a family together. Of course, not the mind-numbing soaps and serials! Even if they are fake reality shows, we bitch about them together. We do realize if it’s bad and respond to the choice of not having to watch. Also, musical reality shows, though fake, do make us enjoy and calm our mind. We can’t have silence accompanying our family dinner time or bring up a conversation just to break the awkwardness. If we do enjoy watching movies at theatres together, we get the joy here too. Try beating TV with your laptop with struggling internet.

Informer

As much as we argue that today’s media is crap, there are some wonderful informative, light-hearted shows and news channels on TV that connect us to the world. One news channel brings together almost all of the news content at one place whereas internet brings us based on what we look for and what we follow. Of course, it’s not like the media’s better there!

Kids watching TV is way better than kids hooked to the internet - hands down!

Size and Screen

For a sports lover, how would it be to watch any match on a screen-size that of a laptop?

Finally, we need the noise. No matter how much we try, we are not sages to bring the focus in seconds just because our home is silent or because we are bored. Silence and productivity don’t apply to everyone. Sometimes, silence can bring in a gloomy mood instead of a productive mind.

So, to sum up, to break the monotonous silence, we can play music all the time - yes! We can open our laptop, go through the pain of connecting it to a speaker set/ Bluetooth speaker, check for proper internet connection, look for HD videos, subscribe to Netflix, Prime, Hotstar and all the money-sucking platforms or just get a f****** TV!