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Re: Television [Re: Droz]
    #7982796 - 02/05/08 01:48 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

What's also disturbing about TV is that it only exists to sell people things... There is absolutely no other reason for its existence. It is not art at all, it panders to the lowest common denominator in order to sell things to the widest range of people. And what does everyone want? A new plasma TV!


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My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”


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Re: Television [Re: Droz]
    #7982811 - 02/05/08 01:53 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

For those who have not seen it, one of the infamous clips from 'The Network':



I'm really not a fan of television these days. It isn't only the programming, which a lot of I think is nothing more than propaganda, desensitization and behaviorism but also its how big screen televisions are beginning to permeate more and more households as time goes on. I have a friend, for example, who already owns a big screen television.. but they are already considering investing in a larger version that can hang on their wall. At another friend's place before going out the other night, my buddies were commenting that the television we were watching at the time was crap. This being a 17" or so.. something considered to be perfectly fine only a few years ago. We're being told that new makes old obsolete when the 'obsolete' works perfectly well. And where do you think all the old televisions go that are thrown out? @#$%.


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Re: Television [Re: MushmanTheManic]
    #7985052 - 02/05/08 10:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I put my TV in storage about three years ago and never looked back. Maybe it's time to put it on Ebay?

I do subscribe to NetFlix, though. :thumbup:


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3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.


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Re: Television [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7985057 - 02/05/08 10:51 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

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To me it's the rapid pace of imagery that turns me off. There is a difference between a stage play where you can view the full stage and a show where you only see that which the camera is focused on.




Not to mention, plays typically involve some sort of underlying theme or message. Sitcoms and "reality television" are just relatively hairless apes running about in mundane situations. Entertainment doesn't have to be intellectually lacking, but it seems like most of what they put on television is. Even when I watch the news, I feel like it is still just entertainment.


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