Finally I'm tired! I'm tired of nighttime sitcoms, daytime personality fare, and soaps, which have bored me for years now. I'm disgusted with dedicated total sports shows and quasi news channels that are selling the same information with different faces, which are maddening for a geek like me. The home shopping channels turn me cold, as do the ancient television dramas, equally obsolete sitcoms and old, old movie rerun outlets. Cop, doc, lawyer and detective shows are too graphic and violent for my fragile psyche; they leave me shaking and unable to operate my remote. Of course, I can't mention the X-rated porno shows and the thousands of infomercials that permeate our airwaves through out the wee hours, as I'm asleep during those magic hours. The wildly popular cooking shows are starting to show wear and tear, and if I have to see another WWII documentary, personality biography and animal doc, I will run through the rooms of my house snatching my hair out! I have since come to terms with knowing about the deadening of American intellect. Outside of the Discovery Channel and other educational channels, I'm afraid I would have lost most of my brain cells as early as three years ago.

What to do? Do I have choices? Yes. I can complain, as I have, but my complaints would fall unheeded by the wayside. I can limit my precious time to watch the boob tube (you see, we did know for a long time that the Television set would dumb us down -- boob tube has become part of our vernacular since its advent into our culture) but then how else would I get to catch an airing of my favorite commercial and what else, besides my radio, would keep me company while I'm captive pounding my keyboard.

I sometimes go days working in solitude. It's then that I'm conscious of the tremendous, basic needs we have as humans. As we have to eat and drink water, we need to see representatives of our own forms around us. We heed to the power of those images, no matter what it is doing and we crave for the sounds of the human voice, no matter what it is saying, albeit, in my case, by way of the radio and/or television.

EDITOR'S NOTE:
Here at the office, Jerry took us all aback with this piece. While we had all realized the occupational hazards of the solitary type of work we do, we had never put it out there on a conscious level. Send your FEEDBACK or direct your email to the Editor.