I didn’t mean to dump on the show in the clip, I was just making a general comment. I will watch the clip when I’m at a computer with working sound.
Nice to meet a fellow TV-avoidant. I stopped watching in 1997, and have been undergoing an enormous cultural shock this week, as I am temporarily staying with someone who has the tube on all the time. Holy cow, does TV suck even more than I thought. It’s just loud, dumb, and boring. The news is even worse than I thought—it seems like most of it is ‘soft’ people-interest stuff and Youtube clips.
True, true and true.
When I travel, I always turn on the set in the rooms I stay in mostly to see what shape our propaganda system is in. I always end up on the home/garden/cooking shows or the ones like junk yard wars (or whatever it’s called) where people scrounge junk and make cool cannons and the like. Thing is, out of an hour of flipping channels and watching (being nauseated is closer to the truth) I find maybe 15 minutes of continuous entertainment (AKA: brain floss) without commericials (another subject in themselves).
Without the tube, life is far more exciting and rewarding because you simply have more time to do cool stuff on your own. TV is, in fact, a drug. Without it, you have a chance to live life; good, bad, boring, but still your own. The noble savage . . .
With the tube, in the vast majority of cases, IMO, people live vicarious experiences and think they understand the world and its events. What’s most disturbing and eeriest to me is the uniformity of our culture and it’s thinking. The majority of people you meet daily a mere clones of one permutation or another of the images popularized on the tube. Their language, topics of choice and personal tastes are at least 60-70% uniform within the sphere of current popular fads. Eating habits are corporate (fast food) and life goals are in synch with pop-culture ideals. This seems to be true whether they are alpha, beta, delta or epsilons.
The biggest joke, and a source of never ending consternation/amusement, is the popular notion of ‘rage against the machine.’ Can the clay be greater than the potter?
Gee, maybe there should be a Freeper TV avoidance ping list! I gave it up after AlGore conceded. Finally.