[PLUG-TALK] Hacking in TV SHows

[Keith Lofstrom]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> The purpose of television is to make you stupid enough to watch television.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 05:45:27AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Huh! I thought the purpose of TV was to put eyes on paid commercials;
> to generate revenue for the stations and networks.

Wrong end of the ego.  Television people make television to be seen,
to be the center of attention, and advertising revenue is a means to
that end.  Watching those preening peacocks is wasteful, stressful,
unhealthy, and stupid, and many people are naturally smarter than that.

It takes years of brainsucking nonsense to make people idiotic enough
to spend 30 hours a week of their irreplacable lives staring cowlike
at a piece of glass, when they could be typing insulting nonsense
while staring at a piece of glass like I am now :-)

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com