So you advocate complete myopia and avoidance of all forms of entertainment? Seems kind of retarded to me. The fact is there’s good and bad entertainment, TV, movies, music and books. I think people should use their ability to discern and pick and chose the stuff they like. Sticking your fingers in your ears keeps the good and the bad out, using the channel changer only keeps out the bad.
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it sounds like you believe that being entertained by moving shapes in some form of a rectangle is important. it is far from important. discernment is learned in many areas of life. Watching television and film is ephemera.
Regarding books, we have no lack. In fact, I have a library of well over 3,000 titles that are housed in every room in the house. Novels, classics, texts and technical. Absolutely no need to languish in literary obscurity when the best work of several millennia are a few steps away.
Music? Again, we have more than our share of CD’s, 33’s, 45’s and several hundred 78’s with a Victrola to play them as they were meant to be played. Classic to funk, but absolutely no junk.
So, I guess you could say that we have elevated “discernment” to a level much higher than that of most TV consumers given what I have seen around me for nearly 60 years. The notion that we are hiding, or, as you said, sticking our fingers in our ears is way beyond simply errant; ignorant is a better word. What we have done is disconnected from the cultural tit and taken control of our lives and we live much fuller, rewarding lives for it.
What constitutes myopia is chewing someone out for not providing encyclopedic depth in a casual three-line chat-board post. WCF presumed you’d grasp the obvious sensible limits to his comments.