While I’m far from perfect, I try to live up to the stuff I preach as much as I can.
I ditched cable/dish over a decade ago as I refuse to fund the very propaganda that is killing America. Likewise I avoid movies And have not bought a DVD coming out of Hollywood in years. Before my current health issues sidelined me from more active participation, I was highly involved in landuse issues and so upset the powers that be that Time Magazine did a hit piece about my part in it (naming me and doing their liberal best to mock us. April 26, 1999 (had to check, thought it was 98) with Star Wars Phantom Menace cover. Earth Day issue, Page 61.
I buy used whenever I can’t buy from a business I believe in, unless there is simply no option to be found.
Working at a newspaper as a reporter and ed for many years, I did my best to edit the propaganda out of wire stories and write factual articles of my own where appropriate.
I think we all have to do ‘something’. The problem is that most do ‘nothing’ but bitch. We can’t all be supermen and live politically perfect lives free of contradictions. Human nature and society make that impossible. But we CANNOT keep compromising the big issues and feeding our own demise.
Fair enough. LOL, I have you beat, though...I have never had cable, ever, and haven’t watched television or read any papers for around 15 years (beyond walking by and looking)