Don't get me wrong, everyone sitting in front of the same box that makes your brain turn to mush is probably a bad thing, but it is my understanding that television ratings are down. I've certainly managed to completely eliminate it from my life, except for football games.Matt Good wrote:So. How does some punk kid go about saving the world from itself anyway? One word... TELEVISION.There's a new world order. If you just happen to live in Antarctica maybe you hadn't noticed. Television rules all. Little images dancing across a slightly bent piece of glass now control the collective destiny of 90% of the planet. It can destroy people and it can make them. It can get you elected, it can sway public opinion, it can create something out of nothing, and it can sell useless contraptions to people who don't really need them and can't really afford them. In short, it's the perfect replacement for thought. You don't have to think anymore because TV's going to do it for you (which is a good thing because it would be both messy and a real shame to see that many heads explode all of a sudden).
(Haha, actually, I'd watch baseball games on TV as well, except that the MLB decided to sacrifice baseball in Toronto, Baltimore and Tampa Bay in order to keep their stupid "rivalry" going. We're now in a situation where shitty baseball teams pass on the best players in the draft because they can't afford them, allowing Boston and New York to sweep in and sign them, because money no longer matters. And the new Yankee Stadium will decrease what New York pays into revenue sharing. You have to laugh... you honestly do.)
But maybe football games is too much TV, who knows.
Now, not owning a television DOES still make you a freak, because otherwise you don't have a place to watch films with someone, or play video games or whatever else. And frankly, if you are in your 30s and not interested in either you're a freak and nobody will ever like you.
But I assume "television" in the above equates to the concept of network and cable television.
And probably includes other media as well. But how can you blame it? Someone at one of the news stations took a clip of Howard Dean (who I am using to illustrate an example, I don't particularly care about him either way) and turned up the volume on a scream of his. They played it everywhere.
Dipshit morons who were by definition registered Democrats allowed it to influence their opinion of the man.
I think it was one of the most telling things that ever happened in the post WWII US. TV is powerful, but only because there are so many goddamn do-what-they're-told fucking sheep in this country.
I honestly can't fathom someone getting ready to vote in their primary and being freaked out by a guy working the board at Fox News or CNN going into Audacity and upping the "ROAAAR" volume and then changing their mind on something because of it. Changing their mind on ANYTHING because of it is stupid.
What can you do, and should you even care.
