I was reading a recent blog and I love reading blogs because they are opinions. One of the most famous bloggers is the author of Zen Habits named Leo Babauta of Guam.
And he is helping a lot of people and his thoughts come out so perfectly straight and opinionated. No wonder its one of the most popular blogs in the webosphere
Here is a list of the most popular articles of 2008. One of the posts about 20 things he wished he knew when he was starting out his life says that he wasted so much time watching TV.
All that time you spend watching TV is a huge, huge waste of time.”
Among the many other posts about financial responsibility and not sweating the small stuff there is a TV post. I just think TV is one the most important things in modern Zen living. I mostly watch films and art has never been anti-zen.
One of my friends in LA who lives alone and from what I know has one of the most simplest lives in world just told me that she quit TV.
It’s been a day, & so far so good!”
Rachel Maddow, who is now one of the newest lineup on MSNBC said on an interview that she and her girlfriend did not own a TV set.
I was actually sick and tired of reading about how she lives TV free and is a TV host herself. And then someone wrote:
Well today is your lucky day because the queen of MSNBC finally has one to call her own and can no longer claim to live in a TV-free household.
Thank god!
Living TV free is overrated, stop preaching it.
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Living TV free may be overrated to you bro, but there is no doubt that TV is nothing short of a form of drug, mind killing drug. There are many studies that correlated lowered IQ and time spent in front of the TV.
Especially the so called main stream media is a cesspool of degeneracy. Whether it is political or consumerist conformity, it is the tool with which the amoral perception managers, the PR mother fuckers, that whip conformity into the general public on behalf of corporate interest. In other words TV is the platform with which these evil interests constantly wage war on the public interest. And I believe the cable news channel are the worst offenders. CNN probably being the worst of the worst.
But with that said like any drug, if used critically and with moderation then it can help alleviate such things as boredom, loneliness and over population
. And in some cases, it can be used constructively as in PBS and community public access station, etc.
I don’t miss my TV now that I have been without it for almost a year. Even when I had one, its the history # staff I enjoyed. Without it, I am neither bored nor overpopulating the planet. I get all my news online, from independent outlets. When I do watch TV now over at family or friends house, the commercials stand out as being so unreal and unrealistic that I can’t believe its such an effective form of brainwashing…. all it takes is exposure to something as simple as a commercial over and over and bingo you are a zombie?
Alice Walker Quote:
“I’m always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.”
So true.
Most things on TV do belittle our intelligence.
I never watch local news because if I do I will never fall asleep at night, I will worry about all the crime committed in my city.
Substitutes for TV:
Get news from Radio-NPR, or on line if you feel you are missing something.
Enjoy music.
Watch independent film from Netflex. Niiice.
I say NO to TV and it is empowering.
I hate TV. I have no time to watch it. I can listen to the new on NPR on my way to work or online. I have no interest about anything that’s on TV.
I don’t understand why TV media is so limited in the US. No world new or any update about what’s going on in the rest of the world. Same old same old news is on TV broadcast for the entire day.
I don’t even want to get started stupid reality shows. The lunch conversation at work revolves around TV. I can’t participate or contribute anything to the show conversation. I don’t feel left out. I would rather hold conversation about anything else that’s not on TV. May be if people get up from their couch and walk around their neighborhood, then we might have less obesity
Live without TV!!!!!
Nols,
This from SWPL
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/26/28-not-having-a-tv/
@ Nani:
how tall are you? and how much do you weight?
Nol: Whenever I spit something so irrelevant, one associate use to say: ‘what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?’ so I’ll change it up for you for cultural reasons: what does that have to do with the price of coffee in Yirgachef?
Nolawi wrote:
nyalasmoke wrote:
I agree it helps with boredom. I consider my TV a nice roommate, one which I turn off when I don’t feel like chatting
but keeps me company when I’m lonely & need a mindless entertainment… BUT it does a lasting number especially on kids brains, makes them 1-way receipients leaving no room for creativity. I feel sorry for those who choose TV as a baby-sitter without realizing the consequences.
Nolawi,living TV free is indeed overrated…but one doesn’t need a preacher to live without TV here in Ethiopia…
Ahun bene mot, ETV’n yaye sewu TV yalebet dirish yilal????????
@ Anonx:
it has to do with her superficial comments of physical appearance… and that is what that has to do with the price of tee in china…
Wurgatu wrote:
I guess ETV yemyay sew beTam tinish new .. I was at a relative’s this past Easter and all the kids were watching MTV or some music channel on the dish netwrok & the mom was saying enante lijoch ere Tabyawin keyru kebetachu atwTu bibal enkua ansemam! and of course they were hardly listening to her.. LOL
There are actually some nice things to watch on TV as long as you are selective and know when to turn it off and get off that couch. I had a friend who can’t turn away whenever there is something moving with voice on TV after a while he admitted his addictive impulse and decided to live TV free. Can you blame him?
everything in moderation doesn’t hurt. i watch tv to always be up on what the ‘other side’ is up to. thanks for posting this.
MAN! I love TV..probably i can’t live without it. The first thing that i bought after my small bed was TV in my smallest shared room. Sometimes, I may not watch it for weeks but it is always on in ‘mute’ mode. I feel some one is in my room (have accompany) when the picture moves. Sometimes, I may be busy doing other important things but it is still on. Often, i like to have most of the channels specially news and sports. when i don’t want to think, i like to switch between movie channels. i don’t care if i have watched the movie before or even have it on DVD at home. It is always different to be interrupted by commercials. Watching early morning news on Saturday and early morning Gospel on Sunday is my favorite specially in winter.
The cathode ray tube (CRT) and TV is probably one of the first technology that i always admire and inspired me. i used to open the back to find out how it works and a couple of times i got a shock from accumulated potential.
It is just me!
nolawi is speaking from personal experience. lol. he loves TV like he loves his mama (ok, maybe thats a bad a comparison but you get the point). i’ve never met anyone that schedules his evening plans around tv shows. lol.
noli, here’s a suggestion – try a “diet” from TV. like no TV on weekends or on certain nights. see how u fair.
i have a TV, don’t know what’s on at what time or anything. i get my dose of the morning news and some ear candy on vh1. zats it.
What about Tivo – don’t have it but heard it’s like magic. You’d no longer be a slave to the television scheduling. People also say they never end up watching all the shows they record so in the end they end up watching less tv…
I have on demand…
recording and on demand don’t make sense for me sometimes. I have on-demand and I have watched a maximum of 10 documentary so far. I programmed to record a world cup game three years back, and still didn’t watch it.
The whole scheduling is what it makes TV…
hi. i have free time .wach to this your .TV. BUT i doent .know what this al to made practic . jest lie .chait cheit .so im deserve. emmdent.