This is why I don’t watch t.v.
The only thing more prevalent on television nowadays than sexual innuendo is stupidity, or in the case of the History Channel, irrelevance…or maybe both? Just when you thought the network may have been turning over a new leaf with scripted dramas such as The Bible and Vikings, and a powerful documentary series, The Men Who Built America, which I find myself wholeheartedly enjoying, the History Channel has gone back to its recent roots of trying to scrounge up the most ridiculous concept not even worthy of a time slot on TLC (remember when that actually used to stand for The Learning Channel?) and turn it into a regular series. If you thought Swamp People was bad, then you are just going to love Chasing Tail, which is, you guessed it, a show about deer hunting, that starts this April! But that would be too simple, wouldn’t…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Yes, we’ve certainly come a long way from the “Undersea World of Jacque Cousteau” and the National Geographic specials of the 1960’s and 70’s. Even a dozen years ago the History channel really did focus on history and Arts and Entertainment hosted mainly BBC-produced dramas and the likes of James Lipton. Now, it is a veritable race to the bottom to see what depths of human degeneracy can yet be plumbed. One can only wonder what new cohort of inbred white trash the networks will come up with next? Even Animal Planet has joined the act with its “River Monster” series in which the only monsters I’ve yet to see are the imbeciles standing in boats holding fishing poles. I’m afraid this is what a commodity-fetishist driven, murderously anthropocentric “free society” inevitably leads to, where every human want no matter how trivial or base must be catered to with its own voyeuristic entertainment show. It all comes down to pandering to those two lowest common denominators of human existence: sex and violence. If anyone has doubts as to the utter depravity of American society (regular readers of this blog should not), they need only subscribe to cable television to erase them.
Yep, going nowhere fast!