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So on a Friday it's all getting ready for the weekend type programs, your working week has ended, you've made it, now sit down and watch this. Mondays are depressing programs about how bad life is in other parts of the world. Saturday is fun time, and Sunday programs bring on the depression again preparing you for the monday, actually every sunday here in good old belgium, a nature programme is broadcast and usually shows some poor animal being ripped apart and eaten, getting you in the right frame of mind, for the coming week).

Program content respects and mirrors the days of the week, keeping you in a tandem with the meaning of day. Of course now you can record and play when you want. Would it be so different if weekend tv became weekday tv, would the meaning of days collapse into the sea, etc.

Pluto wrote:So on a Friday it's all getting ready for the weekend type programs, your working week has ended, you've made it, now sit down and watch this. Mondays are depressing programs about how bad life is in other parts of the world. Saturday is fun time, and Sunday programs bring on the depression again preparing you for the monday, actually every sunday here in good old belgium, a nature programme is broadcast and usually shows some poor animal being ripped apart and eaten, getting you in the right frame of mind, for the coming week).

Program content respects and mirrors the days of the week, keeping you in a tandem with the meaning of day. Of course now you can record and play when you want. Would it be so different if weekend tv became weekday tv, would the meaning of days collapse into the sea, etc.

Break the programming, and choose your own programming. It's programming you not just the TV schedule.

read a book, listen to music - get a boxed-set!

Yeah this was big in the 60s, indoctrinate yourself with the things you like. Forget about what's happening outside you. Be the change you seek. Leading to a possible idolatry, a dead end. Confront that which is an attack on all.

programming reflects what the advertisers want to sell to you...

-Imp

Ok good, I'm with you. The programmes are there to bring you to the advert. They need you to be interested.

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See how perverse it is. Human beings staged around a box as warriors of old.

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Modern technology - including modern television eliminating the time & space between us.

Plus, some of the best of modern art.



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Meaning?

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I think what I said above is pretty straight forward.

Technology has, in a way, brought the world together.

In a way, it has shown us how separate and alone we are on another level.





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Oh, I thought you meant the SCTV show of the same name... My bad.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/76f523 ... y-sketches

it has shown us...

How has it shown us?

Do you have Cable TV? That just shows the same programmes over and over again. I think Top Gear has an entire channel to itself, and BBC knowledge consists of endless documentaries about either Hitler or WW1. Discovery has a choice of fishing, Mythbusters, or...fishing... And it makes no difference what day of the week it is.

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Well, I can view events around the world in REAL time, or near real time, through Youtube, Skype, various forums, websites, phones, and even television...like the events that are unfolding in Nepal, India as I type. But I'm doing this observing in the comfort of my own home, more or less, separate from all those around me.


Intellectually we are very separate. That is how the intellectual function works. This forum is an excellent example.

...which is one of the reasons I infuse images and non-verbal features within many of my posts.



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