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To: Kaslin

What’s this thing called a “television?”


5 posted on 11/06/2017 5:15:26 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: oldplayer

“What’s this thing called a “television?”

Glad you asked, it is the creation of Satan himself, an infernal machine that causes users of it to waste their time and income watching mostly less than worthless garbage featuring untalented frauds who are paid huge sums to disparage all that is good and promote evil. It did not begin this way, it once was a new communications tool used to bring the finest talents in show business to people who would otherwise never have had an opportunity to see or hear such talented musicians, singers, actors, dancers, comedians, acrobats, educators, evangelists and the list goes on. It introduced me as a child to a world I had no knowledge of but instead of Perry Como we now have “rap” singers spewing hate, instead of Jackie Gleason we now have hateful political “comedy” which is about as funny as a train wreck. I could go on but what is the purpose. Surely this is not the same planet on which I was born five days before D-Day.


11 posted on 11/06/2017 5:42:26 AM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism regardless of the race of the racist)
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To: oldplayer
What’s this thing called a “television?”

"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it;
moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.
 
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.
How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.
It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever the wanted to.
 
You had to live- did live, from habit that became instinct- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

-1984, Book 1, Chapter One, George Orwell
 
 
What didja expect; a donut??
 
or alexa - echo - dot - etal???

38 posted on 11/06/2017 8:22:26 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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