Channel 57 on the TV is our front door security camera, and it regularly beats the other 100 or so Canadian TV channels for something to watch. Perhaps this is what Sky is like back in the UK, but I've never signed up to find out. Perhaps I've had a lucky escape?

Having so much crap TV says something about the modern attitude to life.

  • If one TV station is good for you, then 100 TV channels must be 100 times better.
  • If a bag of chips tastes good, then a supersize portion must be even better.
  • If having one credit card is good, heving five must be five times better.
We never seem to think about the consequences of our choices. If you divide the production budget for one channel between 100 channels, you only have 1% of the budget to spend on each channel, so of course the quality goes down. Chips are tasty, but if you start eating silly quantities, you're on the way to cardiac arrest. It's bad enough maxing out one credit card and struggling to pay it back, but maxing out five is mad; yet people do it.

We desperately need to start thiking about the conseuqences of our decisions, otherwise life is going to be reduced to channel 57.