The Amazing Embarrasonic Human Karaoke Machine

[metsuten]

In a visionary flash of 1876, a Boston civil servant named George Carey had dreams of complete television systems. Unified viewing across the world. Releasing drawings of what was called a “selenium camera” to “see by electricity” in 1877, the excitement over the possibility of seeing over a distance became widespread. The start of the surveillance

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[gortho]

the tube. the box. the tele.
this machine means nothing to me.
this medium means everything to me.
the medium to share ideas and to portray concepts. to basically let everyone peak into your mind for just a split second is the meaning of my existance.
as you said, it's not the television that's the enemy, it's the people behind it.

[metsuten]

we can thank old man Huxley.

let's thank old man Huxley.

THANK YOU, OLD MAN HUXLEY.

[gortho]

oh yes. why did i not think of it before?

[metsuten]

"This detachment from reality that it creates (which in some cases isn’t so bad)?"
(I guess I was just trying to point out that a detachment in reality wouldn't be so bad form time to time, but that's simply in my opinion.

Huxley, you bring up a good point. Mankind still is a bit primitive in a social way, and we interact in ways that are simply rooted from the internal instincts we've had this whole time. I hope you see what I'm saying here. Everything that man has come to know now is simply an extension of what we USED to know. Fights over territory (if ever) are related to confined court cases and formal settlements. Flying shotgun slugs replace arrows.

And trust me, we've definitely moved way too far ahead into the future. We need a new paradigm.

[zoo_lion]

TV is pretty bad, I do not like it, myself.

Nicotine is a pretty bad societal curse too.

[zoo_lion]

I feel a bit stupid with my one dimensional comment, compared to Charlotte and Graeme, but I am also trying to study for my Spanish final, my mind, she is elsewhere.

[metsuten]

No excuses! ^ ^

(take your time, Fish)

[metsuten]

Are you trying to tell me to quit smoking?

[jtomsy]

I'd hate to go against the flow here and oppose everybody's opinions (wait, no I wouldn't ... ) but has nobody here ever picked up a magazine? Or tuned in to any pop radio stations? OR WALKED DOWN THE STREET

[jtomsy]

If you really want to rid yourself and the world of negativity from a social and economical point of view, burn every copy of Cosmopolitan magazine ever made.

Ever.

[metsuten]

What about magazines that branch off from Cosmopolitan in style and word?

Don't forget Elle. But I think that's just me.

[metsuten]

Case in point: "It’s not that TV is doing all of these terrible things to our brains, so on and so forth, but it’s the people that misuse it who are at fault."

Of course, no one can blame anyone else for their personal decision on the subject of why they watch TV; it'd be cruel. Just like how we can change the channel on the television, we're always able to seek out something more meaningful being aired over marketable cartoons and really bad acting. We can't ignore those educational and inspirational tidbits, no. Have you ever heard anyone bashing TLC or A&E?

I guess that while I say
"TV isn't really that great"
and someone says
"what about educational programming?"
then I say
"why can't it all be that way, then?"

we want variety. TV is variety. this is the only reason i can think of. I still dislike mass amounts of advertising, though.

[zoo_lion]

I could probably be having a lot more fun for the 30 dollars a month I would be saving without TV. I might put it towards my monthly internet bill for example...