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.
Amen!
When they took off the Gorilla Channel.
Haven’t stopped completely, but down to 15%.
Lots more time to watch porn on the Internet.
Actually, watch I youtube How-To videos. Next up - production phase. A real eye opener.
5 minutes ago when I’d heard enough of the political jokes, Weinstein this, Weinstein that, Spacey...et
and the @me too
It wasn’t funny at all and I don’t understand what they were laughing about.
Jennifer Aniston was funny and so was The Rock.
The rest was a continuum ad nasaeum reducto crapmatic pedantic inside joke.
Went back to more exciting things like erasing my wireless phone before I return it to Splint...
We pulled the plug around around 1993 or so. The kids grew up without TV and became amazing readers. After the kids left home and went to college, wife wanted TV again so we signed for cable in 2009.
She watches it occasionally, but I really have no interest, especially after finding out the History & Discovery channels turned into “reality TV” with crocodile hunters, swamp creatures and such. I miss shows like “Lions of the Serengeti” and WWII and Civil War programs.
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.
Good for you if you can handle it.
Some people can handle alcohol. Winston Churchill could and did.
Some people can handle heroine, or cocaine.
Some, I am sure, can handle television, as supplied by the networks and cable.
Life without TV works better for me.
2008. The media’s annointing of candidate Obama was sickening.
And the media yoday tries to pretend they didn’t turn on the Vlintons in the
Primary 2007-2008 going so far as to call them racists.
And all of the advertising/messaging in commercials for movies/news shows I wasn’t going to watch. Gave up all of it. My tv died and I didn’t bother to replace. Never got a ‘digital’ box.
Years later someone gave me an old conventional (tube) tv and my brother gave me a digital receiver (rabbit ears) that I use on occasion to watch decades old tv reruns or movies but usually just watch
Something via dvd or youtube of some free streaming sites. No netflix anymore.
Stopped watching as a regular pastime in 1997 when 1st kid born. Cut cable, and only just recently added rabbit ears to tv so kids could watch world series. We do watch videos of Homer, Andy and Little House quite regularly.
We don’t have cable or dish. I will watch cooking or gardening shows and the local weather report on Free Government TV. ;)
Other than that, it’s DVDs for serials (Blue Bloods, Sherlock, Endeavor, Foyle’s War) or any of the shows on Acorn Media or other cooking shows or movies...and always, ALWAYS, books!
Life Is Good...without the propaganda. :)
When I was about 17. Had a TV about 2 years, during the Clinton hearings.
Didn’t watch much before age 17 anyway.
I’m sort of a rare bird that way.
2012
One of the best decisions I’ve ever made. There are richer forms of entertainment than sitting in front of the vast wasteland that is television. Reading (books or online). Internet radio. Cooking. Pets.
I watch the occasional tv series or movie but from my somewhat meager collection of DVDs. And it is often repeat viewing and “an event” instead of everyday life.
I saw Ray Bradbury give a talk in the mid 90s. Even then he said don’t bother watching the evening news every day especially local is thin on content. He said you could get more detailed news elsewhere.
I noticed when I watched cable TV I was always angry.
Not just a little angry —REALLY angry. And chronically. I wondered, “Is this HEALTHY..?” It seemed not to be. It seemed like the conservative flip-side of being a Global Warmist.
I was treating it like I didn’t have a choice. Why not simply NOT watch TV..? Hey, yeah...
I quit in about 2001, or so. Immediately I felt better, a feeling that grew as time went onl
I once heard Chris Rock joke, “Ya know what n**gers LOVE ta say..? ‘I DON’T KNOW.’ Hey, whats the capitol of Nigeria, bro..? I don’t know...And they’re proud of it...!”
At the time I didn’t understand the psychology at all and I thought his observation insulting. But at least insofaras TV was concerned, that in time is exactly how I, too, became.
NOT knowing anything about TV trivia —actors, titles, show plotlines, new networks— all of it became stuff I took a guilty pleasure in NOT knowing.
Some more years passed and before I’d go through supermarket checkout I would silently charted my TV Ignorance Progress:
I was often unable to recognize starlet photos splashed across pulp journal covers stacked near the cashier.
I’d go to foreign countries and find many non-Americans knew Hollywood trivia much better than me.
Friends, Melrose Place, Seinfeld, MANY others:
I never saw a single episode of any of them and I felt great.
+1
I will put a DVD, an old movie or TV show just for the noise and distraction. So I understand your wife.
The quality of TV programming has dropped considerably over the last 10-15 years. We now buy DVD’s of shows like Castle or watch them on you tube or Hulu. May try Netflex
or Amazon.
I am watching right now.
On a 426 yard hole, Dustin Johnson put his tee shot two inches from the pin. Nw that is something worth wachng!
I felt that way In Australia, recently.
I had no idea what people were talking about when they were discussing American pop culture.
I only watch Howie Carr’s Monkey Business channel.
We got our first TV in 1956. By 1960, I realized most of the shows were not worth watching. I had discovered the school library! Reading became my main recreation. I never had a TV until 1972, as my wife wanted it.
The family, 1960, was watching BONANZA and I suddenly realized I did not care what happened to the actors, they would still all be alive at the end of the show. Twilight zone was my type and Alfred Hitchcock Presents were what I liked, each show different.
I got up, went into the bedroom and read my library book CAPTAIN BLOOD. I was hooked on reading! Next it was Coronado’s Children! I managed, at the age of 14,to get an ADULT library card in Carlsbad, NM. No kiddie or teen books for me!
I did like the late movies! I never cared to watch TV after. Even today I don’t care to watch series TV unless it is an uncut commercial free MOVIE!
I have lots of DVDs of old movies so really non’t need any TV connections at all. Most of the time I am reading or painting, or on FR.
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