For the record, my pro-Trump sentiments have to do with his potential towards creative destruction of that PC-imprisoning paradigm we’re in. It might prove a monumentally needed reshuffling of the deck, a goal beyond the simple realm of politics and an election. Do I trust Trump? No, not really. Not at all. And he’s boorish and offputting to boot. But I don’t really trust anyone these days, including the American people. And least of all, the GOP-E.
As for TV, it’s undeniably a conduit for the moral rot that engulfs society. I divorced myself from most of the culture twenty years ago, to avoid its wearying ill-effect on my own character and values. But I still utilize my tv-set and dvd-player all the time, to watch vintage shows and movies (like ancient 1930s b-westerns), which are far more alligned with my personal tastes and value-system. It might even buttress them.
Me too, brother FReeper. As I write this, I am typing to the soundtrack of Peter Gunn -- got the whole TV series on DVDs, fell in love with the music (Victor Feldman on vibes!!! Henry Mancini score!) -- it was a different era. My particular weakness is Columbo, Wanted Dead or Alive, Perry Mason, Columbo, Gunsmoke, and Leave it to Beaver, God help me. I find great escape in them, because they were good entertainment with great values, and the closest thing to a time machine I've got.
Greene, we're rare kindred spirits in that we don't partake of broadcast TV or cable. We're few and far between! I just cannot fathom folks who have a TV or five or six in the house and leave them on constantly, or who plan their evenings around TV shows. I've done it, fleetingly ... why would anyone anywhere ever want to watch more than one episode of "The Apprentice," if even one? I shake my head in wonder. I know, I'm a snob, they tell me.
Oh well, as Billy Barty the pool sharp bookie friend on Peter Gunn used to say when bidding master PI Pete adieu, "Think tall."