Posted on 01/07/2018 6:03:13 PM PST by marktwain
When did you stop watching TV?
When I did so, it was a watershed moment. Without the constant drumbeat of Progressive narratives being poured into my brain, my life immediately became better.
I started thinking more clearly. I found I had much more time for productive work. I accomplished much more.
I recall that I considered Claire Wolfe's advise in "101 THINGS TO DO 'TIL THE REVOLUTION".
Claire suggested to "Kill your TV". I did not do that, but I stopped watching. Eventually, I gave it away.
My signed copy of Claire's book is dated April 19th, 1997. It is the Loompanic's edition. It was 1997 when I stopped watching TV.
I wish I had done so decades earlier. Some of Claire's advise seems wrong to me now, two decades older and wiser. But on stopping watching the boob tube, she was 100% correct.
I found freerepublic in 1998.
It is impossible to completely avoid. In airports, they have CNN blaring. There is often a TV going at friends houses. One set of relatives has MSNBC on nearly constantly.
When in those environments, It feels as though I have stepped into an alternate reality.
We haven’t had TV since 2002 or so...we go to the bar occasionally to watch NCAA football, then remember why we got rid of the TV to start with.
Well before 1995. Don’t remember exact year. Could have been by 1988, but it was a gradual reduction. Note: Spent 30+ years traveling for a living (outside sales, management & support).
The government changed the signal form analog to HD digital and with converter box and amplifiers little came through.
I stopped paying attention to it around the same time as you quit but didn’t pull the plug (as it were) until they retired analog transmission in favor of digital transmission. I found that I was only keeping it wound for ambient noise. I didn’t have a boob-toob capable of interpreting the new signal and, after looking at replacement costs, decided that I didn’t care enough to invest in a digital TV.
I still catch Tucker Carlson on u-toob but that’s about it.
I am watching tv right now.
About 15 years ago-watched CSI and the various Law and Order Shows. Then came the reality shows and digital transmission replacing analog. Cancelled Dish a couple of years before that and then just quite. We pay for Hulu Plus and buy or rent movies that interest us.
Most of the new I get comes from here and Liberty Daily.
For me I think around 1999. I gave away the TV in 2004.
Oh, and my eyes were brighter, my coat got shinier, and my breath stopped smelling like something that had died....;’}
I still watch TV but I don’t think I watch a single prime time program. I began to watch “Riverdale” then they started pushing every type of liberal social issue so I quit.
I am watching an episode of “Perry Mason” right now. After it goes off, I will watch a couple more episodes of “Zatoichi The Blind Swordsman” which I have on DVD, than go to sleep.
They went and cancelled “My Mother The Car” and I said, “That’s it! Now there’s nothing good to watch!”
You mean TV via a large set-top box connected to cable provider? That’s dead-er’ than fried chicken.
There’s still plenty of high quality content via other means, though.
Approximately 40 years ago.
January of 97 for me.
The second ‘bent one’ inauguration pushed me off the cliff.
I do not own a TV.
Life is good.
If you have the ability to discern between crap and reality, you don’t have to give up TV. You simply control it, so it doesn’t control you.
I didn’t stop and enjoy some evening shows.
I have never watched in the daytime.
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Will check out Liberty Daily, have never read it.
We still get Direct TV, my wife is a TV junkie. But it is so odd, she watches things that don’t include the Alphabet News & Propaganda crowd.
Cooking programs (she does not like to cook), amateur entertainment contest shows (she plays no instrument), The Pickers (she has no interest in mechanical things.
It think she does it for the noise and distraction.
I own a 75” Samsung QLED with monitor audio speakers and denon 4300 amp. Life is very very good.
Stopped in 98 when a friend upgraded
and gave me his old 386 and I found
Freerepublic.
I put the TV on the curb and in no time some poor addicted soul came by
And picked it up.
While I get your point, having a computer and saying "I don't have a TV" is like having a smart phone and saying "I don't have a clock."
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