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Phil Hobbs
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Sven Wilhelmsson wrote:
to our emotions without passing through our reason first. Music and
text can do this too, but only for some people, sometimes, and it's much
harder to arrange. The result of video saturation is a lot of strongly
held views with very little rational content, as we see on both sides of
most of the contentious issues of our day.
Confusing TV watching with education is quite amusing, and confusing
non-TV watching with mental backwardness is even more amusing, or it
would be if it weren't fairly widespread. Where did the OP get that
idea anyway, from TV?
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs
The trouble with TV is that images can easily be made to speak directlyOn Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:16:30 -0700, MassiveProng wrote:
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:46:28 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> Gave us:
Anything is often better than tv.
John
You're an idiot. Are you really so fucking backward that you have
never watched the history channel, or Discovery times, or the National
Geographic channel, or the military channel?
If so, you are even more sad than I thought. Your grandkids will
grow up to be meth heads.
You are talking about me!! I read SED, but have no tv.
My theory is that the more technically advanced a medium, the
less interesting the is content. I am sure about this. TV is made for
idiots by people who may not be idiots themselves, but regard their
audience as being idiots. On the contrary, some of the writers in this
newsgroup do not consider their readers as being idiots. Therefore SED is
worth reading.
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Sven W
to our emotions without passing through our reason first. Music and
text can do this too, but only for some people, sometimes, and it's much
harder to arrange. The result of video saturation is a lot of strongly
held views with very little rational content, as we see on both sides of
most of the contentious issues of our day.
Confusing TV watching with education is quite amusing, and confusing
non-TV watching with mental backwardness is even more amusing, or it
would be if it weren't fairly widespread. Where did the OP get that
idea anyway, from TV?
Cheers,
Phil Hobbs