It is a visual sentence to be strapped, because of the lack of cable or sattlelite, to the local tv for eye entertainment--chick shows, soaps and a shit load of empty scripts on reality shows and a field full of nothing quasi-dramas that puts the hook into the double digit IQ crowd. It's the "when pigs fly" theory comes to it's extreme. "Can you believe it?"--"That kind of crap on network tv!" Believe me it is a torment that Alec Guinness' character, in "A Bridge on the River Kwai" would have drather stayed in that Philippine sweat box than watch it.