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azurelunatic) wrote2002-02-24 11:19 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-02-24 11:19 pm
I hate TV.
Those days when I'm bitchy I wind up learning a lot more about myself than I knew before.
For example, I don't want kids because after constant exposure to kids, even kids I like a lot, I can't really stand being around them when they're irritable ... or being irritating. I take after my father in a lot of good ways and a lot of bad ways, and a shortness around little kid games is one of the bad ways, when the games are noisy. Talking to self or toys I can deal with. Mimicking TV or movie voices and sound effects, over and over and over again, the same thing, again and again and again... drives me nuts.
That's the first thing.
The second thing, I was brought up to believe that TV was a Bad Thing, on a level with incautious use of controlled drug substances. The other denizens of the apartment have noticed that when the TV is on, if it's not something I'm watching, I either get irritable, turn it off, ask that it be turned off, or leave the room. I tend to leave the room a lot. TV goes on, I leave. TV turns off, I pop back out. I haven't really seen a reason for changing my opinions on the TV. Votania thinks the TV is a good thing, overall. I see TV as a dangerous thing that is easy to abuse with a few good applications.
In other words, except for B5, Star Trek (some), some news, some music videos, some coverage of sporting events of interest such as the olympics, a few shows, and educational programming, I think the TV is a waste of time that could be spent doing more constructive things.
I was horrified to hear Nephew parroting an AOL commercial. It's my firm belief that most television advertisement is aimed at blind repetition of easily recognized slogans, to get the name and jingle stuck in the brain the delicious way the Brave New World people were programmed. No understanding of the meaning, just the empty icon of pretty picture and words that are supposed to make the life better. Somehow.
Then, I was raised in a very unworldly way, in what Votania equates to a nunnery, a monastary, nearly divorced of caring what the pop culture in general cares for. When I say "pop culture", I mean anything that wasn't aired, found interesting by, or deemed worthy of Old School NPR, National Public Radio. That's back in the 1980-1997 range, folks. Youth is degenerate.
Did this warp my thinking? Of course it did. So's everybody's thinking.
For example, I don't want kids because after constant exposure to kids, even kids I like a lot, I can't really stand being around them when they're irritable ... or being irritating. I take after my father in a lot of good ways and a lot of bad ways, and a shortness around little kid games is one of the bad ways, when the games are noisy. Talking to self or toys I can deal with. Mimicking TV or movie voices and sound effects, over and over and over again, the same thing, again and again and again... drives me nuts.
That's the first thing.
The second thing, I was brought up to believe that TV was a Bad Thing, on a level with incautious use of controlled drug substances. The other denizens of the apartment have noticed that when the TV is on, if it's not something I'm watching, I either get irritable, turn it off, ask that it be turned off, or leave the room. I tend to leave the room a lot. TV goes on, I leave. TV turns off, I pop back out. I haven't really seen a reason for changing my opinions on the TV. Votania thinks the TV is a good thing, overall. I see TV as a dangerous thing that is easy to abuse with a few good applications.
In other words, except for B5, Star Trek (some), some news, some music videos, some coverage of sporting events of interest such as the olympics, a few shows, and educational programming, I think the TV is a waste of time that could be spent doing more constructive things.
I was horrified to hear Nephew parroting an AOL commercial. It's my firm belief that most television advertisement is aimed at blind repetition of easily recognized slogans, to get the name and jingle stuck in the brain the delicious way the Brave New World people were programmed. No understanding of the meaning, just the empty icon of pretty picture and words that are supposed to make the life better. Somehow.
Then, I was raised in a very unworldly way, in what Votania equates to a nunnery, a monastary, nearly divorced of caring what the pop culture in general cares for. When I say "pop culture", I mean anything that wasn't aired, found interesting by, or deemed worthy of Old School NPR, National Public Radio. That's back in the 1980-1997 range, folks. Youth is degenerate.
Did this warp my thinking? Of course it did. So's everybody's thinking.
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