May 10, 2010
Quit being rude to your television and give it more of your time. It’s there for you.
I know it’s easy to get self-righteous about hating television, so….
That’s exactly what I’m going to do. Because I like doing easy things.
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Do you have this kind of relationship with your TV?
If not, what are you waiting for? How can you resist that glimmering box, who flickeringly awaits you in the family room, so eager to get codependent?
Funny story: I’m going to buy a new TV today.
I also wonder how watching streaming video on the internet is any different.
But I do both, so there you go.
“I also wonder how watching streaming video on the internet is any different.”
…or internet message boards, blogs, facebook, twitter, chat rooms, IM’s, video games, board games, eating, shuffle board, D&D, etc.
Wow. Entertainingly creative and piercingly true. It’s amazing how controlling our media can be.
this was the best part:
I know it’s easy to get self-righteous about hating television, so….
That’s exactly what I’m going to do. Because I like doing easy things.
that certainly serves to highlight TV’s creep-factor somethin’ fierce!
not like i need any help in that department.
[canyoubelievethisyoucan'tbelievethis
canyoubelievethisyoucan'tbelievethis
whycan'tyoubelievethis?becauseit's
UNBELIEVABLE!]
That kind of immediate entertainment high available 24/7 reminds me a lot more of social media like Facebook for my age group (college students). The news feeds and pictures never end. However, where television just offers trivial entertainment, Facebook thrives on cheap voyeuristic thrills.
Literally laughed so hard at “I know it’s easy to get self-righteous about hating television, so….
That’s exactly what I’m going to do. Because I like doing easy things.”
Also, I don’t watch TV anymore…not because I’m righteous, but because I’m poor and can’t afford all the fun TV things. Oddly enough, I don’t really miss it.
The man sounds like the internet.
So… I’m wondering what, of all those rapid fire images stuck out the most. For me, it was:
the fish fillet, which I dont even like, Kosmo Cramer, and Richard Simmons.
That’s rather disturbing.
Ugh… that does help me to view my TV habits a little better. I am not a TV person but I am all about Hulu sometimes. What a wake up call.
Thanks, that helps justify the 20 or so years I’ve not had a tv. And it’s gratifying to think of all the creative things I wouldn’t have done or made in those years, if I’d spent my time in front of a mind-numbing machine.
Yep, that would have been very convicting for me a decade or so ago. Now you’ll have to mock my addiction to the Internet to make me feel guilty.
But I would like to feel self-righteous about something. Got any videos about how people spend too much time, say, reading or flossing or enjoying the out of doors?
Wait – what am I supposed to look at?