The New Tube

There was a time when news channels used to telecast real news. TV channels had substance in their broadcasts. Now all we get to see on television is below par journalism feeding us with news which has little or no relevance or reality TV shows which is as real as a strippers silicon tits. Personally I think that the idiot box (and the name is more appropriate now than ever before!) is full of shit. Television bores me to death these days, so much so that if I would ever be able to watch TV for more than half an hour I would be running naked on the streets tearing at my hair.
Frustration and boredom ran rampant in my mind for the lack of some real couch entertainment. And solace I did find. Enter the world of internet tube. Websites which allow users, from all over the planet, to upload self made videos. Even professionally made videos are uploaded on to the net, people upload entire television series’ too (so there you go even your soap operas are taken care of). These videos can be accessed from anywhere in the world all you need is a decent internet connection.
Websites like youtube.com, metacafe.com and Google videos have clips and videos on almost everything possible. The videos range from educational, funny, music oriented, religious to utter crap from kids and adults alike. Sometimes your eyes are opened to stuff you did not even know existed. There are amazing and real videos on these websites which leaves your jaw brain-dead slack.
So now I have unadulterated, unfiltered information and entertainment at the click of a button whenever and wherever I want it. Now I have the freedom to choose what I want to see and what I reject as crap. It’s very simple you don’t like a video you are watching go check other videos on the same subject and there are thousands to choose from. There are great video tutorials to be found on these websites for almost anything you would want to learn. I came to know about Parkour a form of outdoor sport and discipline, on youtube.com and started practicing it on my own. There are no instructors for this sport in my area so I learnt all about training methods and all the moves from these videos. There are propaganda videos too but for every propaganda there is someone who has posted a counter response. It really lets you look at both sides of the coin at the same time. And it leaves you with the freedom to choose what is right and what is not. There are thousands of music videos, feel free to use it like a music channel but just better because you get to filter out the crappy music you don’t want to hear.
These sites open up a whole new world in front of us we just need to have open minds.