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Asante
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Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! 2
#27093729 - 12/17/20 09:03 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have voluntarily done without TV for a year and a half now and a peace has come over me that is just awesome. In comparison, it's like I'm a visitor on a psychiatric ward where people neurotically exchange canned chat loaded with buzz words based on stuff they took in from the mainstream media.
I bring you:
The News:
"scare people into staying tuned to our brand of negativity"
Commercial Breaks:
"instill in people, through lies and malevolent abuse of psychology, a bad feeling that buying our overpriced product will briefly alleviate"
Documentaries not about nature:

Even if you are watching something nice..
Its cut up in pieces to ram that advertizing d*ck a little bit deeper.
TV is like a bad friend, a toxic lover that lies to you, gaslights you, deliberately makes you uncomfortable so it can sell you relief for a pain they themselves inflicted.
Its actually healthier for you to stare into a campfire exchanging some words between you than using the Idiot Box.
The TV was invented in hopes that it would serve to educate the world voluntarily and for free in their free time, to make people laugh at comedy, shed a tear at a drama, and provoke some thought.
But its become a literally psychologically sickening toxic mess.
You're being manipulated so blatantly that stuff like this doesnt come as a surprise:
Try a day without TV
Make it a week.
Make it a month.
Try 100 days.
Then look how you feel. Not just do you chill out more but you notice how contrived and neurotic society is and how deeply people are manipulated.
It is literally, and I say this as someone who practices self hypnosis, like walking out on a stage hypnotist to go to the bathroom and you come back and you notice everybody is a bit off but you, because you dropped out of the hypnosis for a while and thus are at odds with it, because its clear that this hypnosis is against the viewers best interest.
A commercial break is a dozen companies exposing you to the best mind control they can afford to get you to do stuff by inducing a desire for something you didnt even think of needing.
You would never let a guy at work who is like that at the coffee machine enter your home to manipulate and use you some more.
Fuck the TV.
Download or stream an awesome movie or documentary or whastever that you DO like - that isnt interrupted with a shitshow, or use a comme5rcial break free recording tyechnique and watch after the fact.
Go do some Internet, post on the Shroomery more, its interactive. Start a Second Life in a virtual world and yiff with a furry if thats your thing but stop letting yourself getting lulled into BS that makes you unhappier.
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Re: Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! [Re: Asante] 2
#27093759 - 12/17/20 09:24 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Left watching normal TV behind years ago.
I'm absolutely adverse to subjecting myself to unsolicited adverts. It doesn't take a genius to realize how much time that adds up to. Never looked back
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Re: Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! [Re: ch0ppie] 1
#27093770 - 12/17/20 09:32 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I haven't had a cable TV provider since 2005. If I watch anything, it's usually a DVD or quest on the interwebz for the movies that are on my Neverending List of B-Movies. They are only a few TV shows that entertain me, since the history of television, and none of them are currently "on the air".
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Re: Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! [Re: Dilsnique]
#27093820 - 12/17/20 10:04 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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TV is one of the worst activities available in the human experience. It is literally making billions of people even more foolish than they would have already become otherwise. Upgrade to cinema and music. Even a podcast is far better.
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Asante
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Re: Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! [Re: Study The CNS]
#27093835 - 12/17/20 10:16 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Study The CNS said:
Even a podcast is far better.
There are podcasts out there more unpleasant to watch than a constipated hog trying to shit.
You guessed from the description they are usually on the conservative side of the spectrum
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#27093836 - 12/17/20 10:18 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! [Re: I AM SWIM]
#27093899 - 12/17/20 11:05 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I only watch king of the hill, the office, and a handful of other shows for maybe 2-3 episodes a week. I've been guilty of watching a whole season of my favorite shows like breaking bad and the wire and stuff tho
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I mainly only watch anime and on occasion some fictional show on netflix. The only news I keep up with is whatever google's homepage tries to ram into me and apple news. I need to stay away from that crap, but other than that, I have no contact outside or any social media to see what's going on.
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Re: Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! [Re: Asante]
#27094716 - 12/17/20 06:16 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I will right after the NFL game is over. I really only turn it on to watch sports and pretty much Nothing else. I canceled cable and there are 4-5 days a week it stays off. I am not missing much.
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Re: Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! [Re: PotDaddy]
#27094738 - 12/17/20 06:28 PM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sorry OP things things have swung back, people now get their news from blogs and other shit sources, they should be watching cable news to get some actual facts. People have decided to believe whatever they want now, don't like the virus? Just don't believe in it! Filter out real info and listen to shit sources like youtube and you can just pretend it doesn't exist. The constant non stop attack on the MSM over the last five years has caused people to be more ignorant, not more woke. Nothing wrong with the MSM besides they aren't saying what you want to hear. That is not their job. Their job is to info you, and whatever I switch on the news that's exactly what they are doing.
TV in general is shit though, I mostly just watch movies. Last show I watched was Cobra Kai.
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Re: Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! [Re: Asante]
#27095441 - 12/18/20 08:18 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't have anything set up to watch TV broadcasts, but I think excess computer and phone screen time can be just as bad.
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Re: Turn off the Idiot Box and go do something nice! [Re: psi]
#27095446 - 12/18/20 08:22 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Haven't had a tv in many years. I literally don't even think that it's a thing and people watch it just out of boredom or something.
but yeah the ol' idiot box nowadays is more like the phone with tiktok and facebook and what not.
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