We Like to Watch, Apparently

We're going to end up watching people wanking off over pornography - and probably wank off ourselves over them wanking off.  It's the way 'entertainment' is going these days.  Indeed, it is the logical (not to mention inevitable) eventual outcome of Channel Four presenting as 'entertainment' the sight of ordinary viewers watching television.  I mean, really, is this what TV entertainment has come to - watching strangers watching TV, on our own TVs?  The worst thing is that this programme is, in some misguided quarters, considered cutting-edge , award winning TV.  Quite why anyone would think that listening to some bunch of idiots you don't know airing their opinions on the TV programmes they are watching is entertaining is beyond me.  Damn it, I don't even want to hear my own opinions when I'm watching television - I just want to watch it in peace! But to get back to the point, why should anyone care what others think about what they are watching?  Are there people out there so lacking in confidence that they feel a desperate need to have their own opinions (hopefully) validated by a bunch of strangers on TV? 

The last time I felt that way was in the playground.  You remember those days, don't you?  When, as children, there were always these TV series which were 'must watch'?  Everyone watched them, or so you thought.  So if you didn't see them, then you weren't 'normal' and weren't part of the group.  You found yourselves excluded from the conversation in the breaks.  Worst of all, all of the cool kids watched these shows, so if you didn't, you had no chance of being cool.  At least, that's how it felt at the time.  But I grew out of those feelings.  I had no choice.  My parents didn't watch a lot of those programmes so, in those days of single TV set households, I didn't watch them.  Conversely, we watched a lot of stuff which nobody else seemed to, but which was also pretty good, teaching me the lesson that just because something isn't popular, doesn't mean that it isn't worthwhile and vice versa.  I was also allowed to watch some pretty weird and wonderful stuff ranging from Spike Milligan's 'Q' series (my father was a fan), through the Out of The Unknown science fiction anthology series, to various old black and white horror and science fiction movies.  None of which my contemporaries at school had seen, so I could describe these wondrous films and shows in loving detail to them, making them envious.  But to return to my original point, if nowadays we think that watching other people watch TV is, in itself good TV, then it really is only a matter of time before we believe that the most entertaining way to enjoy sex is by watching other people masturbating over internet porn.