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So unplug those TVs tomorrow and get out and enjoy life!
Go for a bike ride, fish, surf, ski, make love, or simply read a good book.
I'm looking forward to a great "No Television Day"!
So unplug those TVs tomorrow and get out and enjoy life!
I'm looking forward to a great "No Television Day"!
I read while the TV is on. It's called "multi-tasking."
Been known to make love with the television on as well...
So unplug those TVs tomorrow and get out and enjoy life!
I'm looking forward to a great "No Television Day"!
That's just stupid. When is 'No Reading Day'? When is 'No Transportation Day'? If you want to go ride a bike, go ride a fucking bike. Don't make a big drama production out of it.
I read while the TV is on. It's called "multi-tasking."
Been known to make love with the television on as well...
Yeah, that's what she told me. That's why she left.
I read while the TV is on. It's called "multi-tasking."
Been known to make love with the television on as well...
Yeah, that's what she told me. That's why she left.
If you're talking about my first wife, I left her and you're welcome to it... Though I wouldn't wish her on anyone. Even you.
Now, my second wife, she's not going anywhere. She's a keeper.
I read while the TV is on. It's called "multi-tasking."
Been known to make love with the television on as well...
Yeah, that's what she told me. That's why she left.
So unplug those TVs tomorrow and get out and enjoy life!
I'm looking forward to a great "No Television Day"!
That's just stupid. When is 'No Reading Day'? When is 'No Transportation Day'? If you want to go ride a bike, go ride a fucking bike. Don't make a big drama production out of it.
They're completely different things. Reading, riding a fucking bike (that sounds risky) and in fact most activities are by definition active. Even sitting in one's wankalounger posting on message boards demands at least active thought. Teleivision by contrast is completely passive and slavish. One sits like a sponge and opens the legs of one's brain to whatever the box wants to sell you -- facile dumbed-down two dimensional shiny object images. Not much different from hypnosis.
Walk into a room where people are watching TV and resist the urge to look at the screen, and instead watch the watchers. That will tell you everything you need to know; passive zombies staring motionless at a screen, soaking up whatever swill the tube decrees, and it makes all the decisions on what's going on; the imagination is completely shut down. Even in a radio drama you get to imagine what the character and the setting look like, just as in a book. (plus, since radio requires only the sense of hearing and not sight, it doesn't shut down anything else you're doing unless what you're doing is talking, which is why radio is inherently superior to TV)
It's no accident that it was over 50 years go that TV was described as a "vast wasteland" by Newton Minow. It's not the content that was on at the time; it's the technology itself. Look up a book by a former advertising executive named Jerry Mander called "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television".
I read while the TV is on. It's called "multi-tasking."
Been known to make love with the television on as well...
Yeah, that's what she told me. That's why she left.
That's just stupid. When is 'No Reading Day'? When is 'No Transportation Day'? If you want to go ride a bike, go ride a fucking bike. Don't make a big drama production out of it.
They're completely different things. Reading, riding a fucking bike (that sounds risky) and in fact most activities are by definition active. Even sitting in one's wankalounger posting on message boards demands at least active thought. Teleivision by contrast is completely passive and slavish. One sits like a sponge and opens the legs of one's brain to whatever the box wants to sell you -- facile dumbed-down two dimensional shiny object images. Not much different from hypnosis.
Walk into a room where people are watching TV and resist the urge to look at the screen, and instead watch the watchers. That will tell you everything you need to know; passive zombies staring motionless at a screen, soaking up whatever swill the tube decrees, and it makes all the decisions on what's going on; the imagination is completely shut down. Even in a radio drama you get to imagine what the character and the setting look like, just as in a book. (plus, since radio requires only the sense of hearing and not sight, it doesn't shut down anything else you're doing unless what you're doing is talking, which is why radio is inherently superior to TV)
It's no accident that it was over 50 years go that TV was described as a "vast wasteland" by Newton Minow. It's not the content that was on at the time; it's the technology itself. Look up a book by a former advertising executive named Jerry Mander called "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television".
If you don't want to watch it, don't watch it. Look up a book called 'Shut the fuck up, drama queen.'
Reading and Bike riding require active participation, you're engaging in Life and Reality.That's just stupid. When is 'No Reading Day'? When is 'No Transportation Day'? If you want to go ride a bike, go ride a fucking bike. Don't make a big drama production out of it.
Yeah, that's what she told me. That's why she left.
They're completely different things. Reading, riding a fucking bike (that sounds risky) and in fact most activities are by definition active. Even sitting in one's wankalounger posting on message boards demands at least active thought. Teleivision by contrast is completely passive and slavish. One sits like a sponge and opens the legs of one's brain to whatever the box wants to sell you -- facile dumbed-down two dimensional shiny object images. Not much different from hypnosis.
Walk into a room where people are watching TV and resist the urge to look at the screen, and instead watch the watchers. That will tell you everything you need to know; passive zombies staring motionless at a screen, soaking up whatever swill the tube decrees, and it makes all the decisions on what's going on; the imagination is completely shut down. Even in a radio drama you get to imagine what the character and the setting look like, just as in a book. (plus, since radio requires only the sense of hearing and not sight, it doesn't shut down anything else you're doing unless what you're doing is talking, which is why radio is inherently superior to TV)
It's no accident that it was over 50 years go that TV was described as a "vast wasteland" by Newton Minow. It's not the content that was on at the time; it's the technology itself. Look up a book by a former advertising executive named Jerry Mander called "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television".
If you don't want to watch it, don't watch it. Look up a book called 'Shut the fuck up, drama queen.'
None of that is about "what I want". It's an analysis of a medium. Perhaps you're not familiar with the medium of "reading"? But that's where we started; you compared TV to reading and riding a "fucking bike" (I still want to see those acrobatics) and I explained why the comparison is false. Then you melted down.
If you don't want the answer ...then don't ask the question.
Reading and Bike riding require active participation, you're engaging in Life and Reality.That's just stupid. When is 'No Reading Day'? When is 'No Transportation Day'? If you want to go ride a bike, go ride a fucking bike. Don't make a big drama production out of it.
TV requires that you go into a "trance-like state" (low alpha waves) and suspend all disbelief.
Best thing you can do for yourself and your family is to unplug the TV.
Tomorrow, Jan 21 2013, is "No Television Day" in America!
