whenever I turn on a television set I am greeted with some paid actor telling me about some product I should buy. Some show that has been regulated by some bureau preaching some crap. All these commercials are so desperately pointless. They're superfluousness distracts us from the fact that all of it is utterly pointless. I actually feel like every time I turn on a television that my mind is being poisoned. The act of becoming distracted and consumed by the television actually makes you the product of the tv. being consumed by it's content. it consumes you, the television is the consumer, and the advertisers who try to make you their product. I think that there wouldn't be so much nervousness and paranoia in this world if people did not become consumed by these things.

Just look at the world around us. It is consumed by things that fill our heads with ideas and pictures and sounds. It's so much like brain washing, the consumerism of this world makes us crave whatever entertainment that they can put in front of us. We are all so helpless under the power of the television and the religions that try to reel us into their structure.I don't know why everyone seems so okay with the world as it is and the televisions that consume us all. I am proud to say that I will not be having a television in the next apartment that I am moving into.

lmao I didn't know that the post already submitted itself. that wasn't what I meant for the thread to be about. I was writing the OP and I accidentally clicked submit a white ago.

You're on the internet.

the internet is free, hence the fight to keep it free that is going on these days.

I haven't watched TV in years. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if it's coming up on 6 or 7. I disconnected our cable a while back. Too much bullshit. Good stuff wasn't worth wading through or searching for.