Military Channel
For some reason, I have found myself watching a lot of the Military Channel lately. It’s mostly because of the show 20th Century Battlefields which uses some cool computer graphics to really explain a particular battle in each show.
However, I wonder why such a channel exists. Why are people interested in hour long detailed explorations of the rifles of the Japanese army? Why would anyone want to sit and watch crane shots of German tanks while a narrator spouts statistics about its capabilities?
It’s war porn and for some reason it is mesmerizing. I suppose because there is so much danger and power in those machines and weapons that they necessarily require our attention. Everything about them is designed to kill other humans and there’s some sort of energy bound up in that.
I wonder if other countries have anything like a Military Channel.