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I was sitting watching television with my wife and daughters who enjoy watching cooking programs. Now normally I try to stay away from television unless it's a motion picture, which I enjoy, but I wanted to spend some time with them, so I sat there and watched. After a little while I realized what I was watching was not a cooking show but a competition. It was a football game played with frying pans. There were four chefs competing, They would each create some dish which would then be judged and in the end one would be the winner and the rest would lose.
I thought to myself wouldn't it be great if instead of competing against each other, these four chefs would collaborate and create something together. All of them could bring their particular unique talent to the table and we would be the beneficiaries of that delicious harmony. Instead of the food equivalent of the Packers versus the Bears it would be the food equivalent of Crosby Stills, Nash And Young.
Today the massive amount of information we are being subjected to creates an endless and ever expanding competition for our limited time. That is a direct result of the over communicated environment and it is reflected in the programming. The polarization it creates is getting stronger and stronger. Black versus white, rich versus poor, police versus demonstrators, there is very little harmony. Instead of diplomacy and understanding we have war and torture. Instead of musical harmony we have musical competition.
The other day someone asked me why I do my radio show called The Deep End With Nick Michaels. The answer is so we can hear the harmony again.
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