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I was just at a gathering of like-minded chassidic individuals. Happens to be we’re in the town south of Parkland, FL. Our rabbi told us the absolute horror of the families waiting to be told the fate of their unaccounted-for children that day....he spoke at the vigil, etc.

(Not to but yes to swing this thread to the religious)

Since we read in the Torah today of the building of the Tabernacle, he drew a comparison. The tabernacle had a courtyard with an altar— lots of blood, slaughtering, noise, fire, ash... a raucous. The “Holy” (the antechamber to the Holy of Holies) was quiet, refined. A menorah, incense, showbreads. The Holy of Holies was the innermost sanctuary and resting-place for G-d.

The killer, so to speak, brought the outside activities into the holy, quiet places. Children in school should feel that they are in a safe and “holy” place of development. What a perversion and a tragedy.

BUT then, as the gathering was at a house-warming party for another like-minded (read: MEGA-RIGHT-WING religio-political family ;) ) the rabbi took the time to implore us NOT to bring murder, rape, violence, trash, foul language, garbage culture in general INTO our homes. Our homes should be sanctuaries and the lil’ ol’ TV can corrupt and pervert them.

Well, that’s coming from someone with a long beard and black hat. To each his own— but the analogy is applicable to most FReepers to some degree I’m sure.

in addition to the famous remark of former FCC chairman Newton Minow (that TV is a Vast Wasteland),
TV’s inventor (or at least a major contributor to modern TV technology) Vladmir Zworykin (yes, a Jew, from Russia) ... who aspired to make good television possible in every home.... he had dreams of opera, symphony, great drama, education, intelligent discourse...would be brought to every individual and family. But, when he saw how his invention (cathode ray tv picture tubes that made modern electronic television practical)......
when he saw how his invention was actually being used (that is, when he saw what kind of largely-inane programming was being broadcast)......Zworykin said he wished he could have known, for he would have “smashed every tube” in his laboratory.