Television conditioning

The average American over the age of 2 spends more than 34 hours a week watching live television, says a new Nielsen report — plus another three to six hours watching taped programs.



Zombies! Morals. ethics. and propaganda are learned from the TV, not the parents and the parents learn it from tv

 

“Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.”

― Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

 

I love TV Land, as I call it. I don't have television, myself, but it's great to just let it consume you.

 

Just counted on the calendar.

Going on 12 weeks without television stations/channels

Just dvd watching occasionally.

 

They say TV rots your brain and, I believe, that explains why Professional Wrestling and reality TV are stranger than fiction, and why its illegal to vote for Mickey Mouse in Maryland. It is my sincere hope to provide quantifiable empirical evidence that this is the case and can explain the quantum observer effect, as the result of lowbrow slapstick being intrinsic to nature. Think of it as the principle of Rot Your Brain Libertarian Paradise Gravy Train. If half of life is just showing up, you are in the right country.

 

So 37 to 40 hours

5.3 hours a day is the average

I call bullshit

 

I do that all the time. I'm completely off of television in the sense of watching programs when they air.

 

Is that also include political and news television?

 

How much do you watch?

 

and what has tv done for you? how is your life? are you healthy? are you loved? Did anybody from tv ever come to you and give you a ice cream?

 

Never had it when I was young, didn't have one for my kids to watch and they don't watch now at all as adults. Most of TV is useless and its main purpose is ---SELL-SELL-SELL.

 

Pretty sure it was 1986 or 87 when the last TV I owned was pitched into a dumpster with very little ceremony.

 

I don't have cable or satellite TV.

I freeload off of my brother’s Netflix account, which I rarely ever use.

We now live in an era where there’s 1000 channels to chose from, and still have a hard time finding anything worth watching. How sad is that?

 

Thats...ridiculous.

I'm not above watching tv but thats way too much

 

Most of my TV viewing consists of The Weather Channel or local news.

 

yeah, i was thinking that too. i know plenty of people are unemployed, but anyone with a job doesn't physically have time to watch that much tv.

unless they're counting people like me; i turn the tv on when i get home purely for background noise, but more often that not i don't actually watch it for a minute.

 

At the moment i watch the Bachelor, 2 x1 hr long eps a week, plus Fear the walking dead when I download it.

So about 3 hrs a week.

Include youtube, and maybe 6 hrs a week in total

 

that's what I do. background noise. helps keep the PTSD thoughts down (they crop up when it's really quiet and I can hear the noises of 'civilization' outside. ) so if I'm gonna listen to bullshit one way or the other, I'll turn on netflix and stream comedy shows, etc.

 

It's done nothing but brainwash me and make me feel like I belong, but that's why I like it. It's nice to have company and have the togetherness of the millions of mindless drones all watching a TV show at once. I used to have this fantasy that we'd all just get lost in TV Land. Separated by light years of television shows. Never able to communicate directly with each other, except for through the TV. And then one day I would get the courage to jump through the TV screen and I would contact someone.

 

I wish you people would stop with this anti-TV crap.

I agree 80% of the content today is garbage (Jerry Springer, Judge Judy, Maury, Survivor, The Kardashians, Big Brother, Dr. Phil…etc..) but there’s still another 20% that’s quality TV.


Earlier today I was watching this nature special which focused on the carnivorous Venus Flytrap and the symbiotic relationship one species of Pitcher Plant had with a particular mosquito larvae - it was fascinating.

With over 100 channels to choose from I limit most my viewing to less than a dozen stations


The Smithsonian Channel
The Military channel
ESPN
CNN
The Weather Channel
MSNBC
New England Cable News (NECN)
AMC
PBS Boston
The NFL Network
CBS