You know, verbal attacks on me as a facist are really pointless. You don\'t know me. Don\'t pretend you do. When my siblings are watching crap on tv, I walk out of the room, and exercise my free will. If I don\'t like it, I don\'t make myself watch it. That would be like hammering nails into your skull when no one made you.
And if you haven\'t been reading my posts then open your eyes and read this (This is directed at you, Aender):
Kissing in public doesn\'t bother me. If you want to dress like a slob, do it. You want to listen to Death Metal? It\'s your right. This is America. You can do anything, right up to the point of twisted perversion in America, and you reasonably have a right to do as you wish, but when someone forces THEIR freedom of speech down my throat, I have every right to regurtitate it back right into their faces. I don\'t want to control society. I want it society to take the next big step. In times of ancient England, kids were getting knocked up at like 12-13. Kings actually had a right to sleep with a bride before the groom did. Now that I think about I was wrong to some degree about a failing society, but it\'s a work in progress, and television is hindering that progress. I\'m not saying DON\'T watch tv. Hell, I do once in a while if I find something I WANT to watch. But people have 15 hours of stuff they watch, not because they want to watch it, but they\'re not constructive enough to walk away from it and find something better to do. Potterymaking, Going to concerts, have sex with teenagers. WHATEVER. A bad life is better than no life at all. They choose their lives, they live it. Not me, so I don\'t see why I have to swallow and accept bitter pills that I don\'t need. I don\'t see why, just because half the city of Houston goes to skin room, that I have to acknowledge their propaganda. It\'s like pop-ups on the internet or spam in my email. I never asked for enhancement pills, so I do what every one with free will does. Delete that sucker. I have every right to ignore something I don\'t like. But that\'s not the way life is. Things can\'t be ignored all the time, and in this case, that unignorable -thing- is how much time people spend with something that has little substancial worth.
Oh, and Aender. It\'s ironic that you make me out like a facist. I expressed myself at the top of my post, and posted that it was the working of an angered mind, and was my opinion. You CHOSE to write your opinions trying to make mine small. I was saying what was on my mind. If you don\'t like what I have to say, you can use YOUR free will and ignore this. No one is making you subscribe to my notions, but you chose to acknowledge them and argue. Not me. Don\'t make me out to be something I\'m not.
As for those \"Truth\" commercials, I would have to agree. It fanatacizes that smoking cigarretes is like putting a gun in your mouth. Blaming the cigarettes would be like blaming Smith and Wesson for school shootings.
Television, as I have come to realize it, is a roll of the dice. Sometimes it can come out with something so ingeniously funny as Invader Zim, and then the next moment it\'s blaring out some other idiocy. It has done good things like showing the world, America\'s first man on the moon. We knew, almost instantaniously, when the Twin Towers were hit. But for every \"good\" it can do for society, there are twenty \"bad\" things.
TV cannot, and should not be taken away. I\'m not saying for people to destroy it, I\'m saying for people to do something better with their time.
Balance is what so many lives are missing. People don\'t seem to know when to stop drinking or stop smoking or stop waving their genitalia in front of a camera. Balance is understanding that if something bothers you, you avoid it. Apperently it doesn\'t bother people to make idiots of themselves on television, so I avoid it. I just also chose to speak what I think.
Kblilik is right, I knew when I started this thread that it would draw contradiction like moths to flames. I am more than happy to debate, and come to a better conclusion, and have once or twice through this. But I stand on my opinion that television is degraded.
To Kramy: I haven\'t seen any of those, though I was interested in Tremors. I\'m not sure how many of those are Reality Shows. But I avoid those like the Black Plague. Television hasn\'t figured out how to show real people, and stop trying to characterize them as things like The Vegetarian, The Homosexual, The Insecure One, or The Partier. People are still made out as extremes, rather than average people.
