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January 05, 2006

kill your tv...( a randoom post from a weird space in my head)

"hi, my name i xxx & i'm a former child tv junkie. i'm an american who was raised with a blue box babysitter strapped to my parents living room. i grew up as a child in a culture where the tv has been used as a weapon of mass audience mental deconstruction. thankfully when i was young i decided to take charge & shatter that glass ceiling. suppose us kids at a young age can learn to deal with the addiction of technology....or not."

...damn that paragraph looks funny now that is written.

was walking out & about the other night. noticed most houses contained a blue hue flicker in the windows. more than the usual & i thought man...thats cool people still have some holiday lights up? NOT! at first it puzzled me...then i quickly flashed to the reality that it was the modern times tv babysitter giving a daily dose of STUFF to its people.

ahh the tv. screw that damn thing. yeah yeah yeah some programs are this & that. some offer this satisfaction or that. i mean really, c'mon.

btw: i'm not inferring that ALL programs on tv are crap. just about 98% of it. 2% might be things like educational programs, health or items along this line. basically things that most of western world people are not interested in on a daily household basis. lol
we all know sex, violence & drama are what many people reallllly want. such popular items as reality tv, mtv & other shows like FOX news are prime examples of candybar mental diets. oh yeah...you could even add anything related to g.bush. which i think might fall into the wasted mental humor category. ;-}

guess i'm suggesting less tv & more power to choose free time w/ items of personal interest. twas a nice feeling about 3yrs ago when we sold that thing in our garage sale. now we're on our 3rd happy year w/out that POS. i think the roomies in the flat below us are on about 10yrs or so. people look @ us so funny when we tell them we do not have a tv in use @ our house.

"but how do you know whats going on in the world" someone asked me. in a faint grin i suggested that the tv is a sexy version of a shitty tabloid. also in that conversation i did attach the comment that i do watch some tv here & there. but i strictly monior my use to maybe an hour a month.

long live the internet is all i can say.
i wonder in years ahead how this will affect me. i'm no angel & the tv is like a probation officer of sorts. always looking for you. hehehe.

my buddy made a good statement the other day. he feels like his tv is watching him rather then him watching it. i agreed & told him to turn it offffffffffff.

Posted by Single Fin at January 5, 2006 01:19 PM

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Posted by: single fin at January 8, 2006 08:12 PM