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TV change we life—fuh better or fuh worse?

Feb 04, 2025 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

Dem Boys Seh

Kaieteur News- Long before TV come, people use to sit down and mind people business like it was a full-time job. Yuh window was yuh own private television, and de street was de channel. If yuh neighbor pass wid a new pair of slippers, right away de discussion start: “Is who she think she impressing?” If a man pass looking fresh, people start whispering, “He geh new woman.” And if somebody walk fast, was guaranteed to be some drama, because “he running from something.”

Then TV come, and people stop peeping through dem window. Now dem peeping at soap opera—same bacchanal, just on a smaller screen. Instead of discussing de neighbor business, dem discussing who backstab who and who deh with who in de Young and De Restless.

But de worst thing TV do? It kill family time. Long time, de whole family use to eat together. If de food wasn’t nice, yuh had no choice but to smile and chew, because everybody watching yuh. Now? Everybody eating in front de TV. Yuh father watching news, yuh mother watching soap opera movie drama, yuh sister watching fashion show, and yuh lil brother watching cartoon. Nobody talking. If de house fall down, nobody gon notice till de WiFi stop work.

And wuh happen to de old-time family games? Long time, people use to sit down and play cards, dominoes, and ludo. Now, people playing “who can find de remote first?” And if yuh ever change de channel when somebody watching dem show, yuh might just get exile from de family.

De biggest casualty was de old folks. Granny use to sit and knit. Now, granny watching de cooking channel but can’t boil water. And grandpa, who use to sit and listen to de radio, now watching wrestling and feel he could suplex somebody if dem step pun he corns.

Dem boys seh TV change we life. It mek some people stop peeping through dem window, but it also mek some people forget how to talk to one another. De only time some families does really talk now is when de electricity cut off. And even then, dem more vex because dem can’t charge dem phone to check de time TV coming back. Dem boys seh de old days was simple, but at least people use to interact. Now, people know more about de life of a fictional character than dem own family. Imagine, some people does cry fuh a character in a series but don’t know if dem neighbor hungry.

TV come and bring de world closer, but it push families further apart. Maybe one day we gon switch off de screen and switch back on we real life. But don’t hold yuh breath—de final episode of dem new series just start!

Talk half. Leff half

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