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Monday, May 22, 2017

Television

Demolocke’s Agenda Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)

I grew up with television starting with an old black and white that ran on rabbit ear antenna with snow and three channels, i.e., CBS, NBC and ABC were it. As I grew up a combination of running my neighborhood and watching television was the mainstay of personal education and entertainment. Mostly …

Bonanza, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Secret Agent and The Prisoner - to name a few favorites - are what I watched on the tele. I suspect most in my generation tended to be television addicted. There were no video games or even video’s for watching movies. If you wanted to watch movies you had to come up with the ticket fee and go to a local theater - Beach Street Theater has Saturday Movies for us youngsters back way then. 

I remember going to see movies like H. G. Wells Time Machine and much later the space adventure, “2001: Space Odyssey.” I am sure anyone from my generation will recognize these films as well as many others of that era, i.e., the sixties and seventies. 

Soon I joined the military and the only television was Friday nights when we all gathered in the TV room to watch, “Kung Fu,” with David Carradine. We had a lot more to do during those years in lieu of watching television but just the same it held attention on holidays and on rare weekends off in the barracks. One cool memory is every year when the annual presentation of, … wait for it …, The Wizard of Oz came on all the previous week you would hear gripes that Friday’s television would be this stupid kids movie yet when it started there was standing room only in that TV room when it began. 

Lets roll forward a few decades where cable came into existence then things like Netflix and all those myriad cable channels that soon found meme’s in movies, “99 channels and NOTHING ON!” Now, we have so many sources that it is impossible for humans, at this stage of evolutionary progress, to fathom or even cognitively process it all. Of course this lead to a problem.

So many channels, so many sources and so many programs, movies and documentaries - oh my - it is impossible for any one human to possibly know what is on and what is of interest let along come up with programs and stories and drama’s that would be different, exciting and not just regurgitations of same old themes, etc. But that is exactly what has come of television. 

I used to look forward to a favorite show in the evenings where we all sat around to watch, discuss, critique and philosophize about the theme of that favorite but now, it is just mind chattering flooding overwhelming reality-based drama-trauma. The only channel, and that is changing too, is the NPR educational channels that put out beneficial programs to inform, enlighten and stimulate our minds. 

In short, it has become such that we, in our home, have reduced the cable to the basic and only record maybe one or two programs while the rest is left untouched and on our television only because the cable networks only provide packages rather than you select only the channels you want and the rest go into dev-null. 

Now, it has divided into even more convoluted ways to stream content, of questionable value, to our televisions and other media devices. In truth, because of the saturation of such inane content I have lost interest in television except to connect to the movie section of my Apple TV box to watch movies. 

Television is no longer, to me, television but a means of confusing us into purchasing piece meal content they manipulate and influence us to watch , etc., all with half the content consisting of ads to further influence us into acting and spending in a mindless manner all in the name of profit. 

Don’t get me wrong, I am all for making money because that is our culture and social system but it has been driven by technology to such a state that greed and need drive it way past our humanity into some form of science-fictionalized human existence without out true meaning and true value. 

Sigh!


Add some tin foil around the tops of the antenna and
you will have a good vision of our TV way
back when!!!

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