We recently switched cable companies, going for one that is cheaper and offers more channels than the previous one.
I like paying less, but the greater selection isn't the boon I thought it would be. Surfing the other night I was struck not so much by the mediocrity of the fare - which has been widely documented - but by the almost total lack of anything foreign. Yes, there are a few stations in Spanish, but many of their shows are produced here.
The movies, no matter how high you surf, are unrelentingly American. The Sundance Channel, to its credit, occasionally shows French and Italian films. But what about movies from Asia, Latin America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe? You can surf all you want and you won't find them. Is it that subtitles aggrieve a post-literate generation? Or are we as a people simply stuck on ourselves?
