Video iPods Reduce Societal Boredom Index 1.4 Percent
The introduction of the Video iPod by Apple is a wonderful next step in the advancement of our being entertained at all times by all things. What is annoying is that video is still in short supply in so many places where it is needed.
I was on line yesterday at the Whole Foods by Union Square in New York. I was on line for 10 minutes, bravely holding onto my flax crackers and exorbitantly expensive bottle of Trinity Water, which is much more ionized than crappy Penta Water or even the stuff that bubbles up from the Bronx (I’m told ionized is good, no?).
Well, I was bored. No entertainment for 10 minutes, unless you count the crazy citizen in front of the store who danced with himself around and around and around the entire time. He was on the street, so the crack Whole Foods security team could do nothing but watch and make sure he didn’t break for the organic cheese.
There was a big empty space between the cashiers and the ceiling. Why was there no TV? We could have gotten in ten minutes of The Young and The Restless, or a vignette from The Vegan Channel, or perhaps Lou Dobbs groaning incessantly about the new trend to outsource cable newscaster jobs.
I asked for the Store Manager. The cashier pointed to the man dancing on the street.
If only he had watched more video instead of obsessing over the Pignoli nuts in Aisle 5.
Children learn at an early age that if they whine loudly enough, their parents will place a roof-attached television screen in the SUV. Children have a point, and until society whines loudly enough for entertaining video in public toilets, churches and prison isolation cells, Americans will continue to be needlessly bored. God bless Mr. Jobs for doing his part.
