i watch "walker, texas ranger."

i know it's not quality tv, but i'm helpless. i seem to have a weakness for crappy, overly dramatic tv, case in point, that time i was addicted to melrose place in tenth grade. besides the fact that i can't/couldn't manage to tear myself away from either of them, walker and melrose place were/are nothing at all alike. at least i had an exuse for the melrose place deal, i was fifteen.

i think i like walker so much because it appeals not only to my desire to be passively entertained, but it fits into what i feel like the medium of tv should be, which is simply to entertain people. tv tends to render itself useless, or worse yet, earn itself a false pretense of usefulness whenever it tries to pass itself off as a medium that can accomplish any sort of elevated discourse on significant issues. there are, of course, exceptions to that rule, but by and large, people forumlating most of their opinions on subjects that are even slightly deeper than trivial based on what they see on tv seems more harmful than helpful.

i don't feel so bad about watching walker.

feeling: restrained, or maybe constrained
thinking of: the hierarchy of needs
music: "standard" paradigm