{"id":3887,"date":"2016-10-21T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2016-10-21T12:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T19:47:54","slug":"never-watch-the-tv-haunting-alan-watts-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"Never watch the TV — haunting Alan Watts wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brunette here. Been quiet for a while, have had a lot on my mind lately . . . both to do with this ongoing train wreck of an election, and other more mundane matters. Vin and I have not had a TV for years (I don’t want one in the house, period.) He doesn’t seem to miss it in the least — in fact, we find it jarring when confronted with the ubiquitous screens at restaurants, bars, etc.<\/p>\n

For the most part,\u00a0 I gave up on TV during high school when I had a roommate who’d become addicted to soap operas. Lovely gal, but thank God we didn’t have a TV in our dorm room! \ud83d\ude09 After that, I either avoided TV entirely or was highly selective about watching and stuck mostly to occasional movies or documentaries — resisted getting hooked on series shows like the plague. (Laugh tracks on sitcoms always made my skin crawl! Anyone else feel that way?)<\/p>\n

Lately I’ve had reason to think about the television question — we’ve noticed a huge divide between people who primarily get their news from TV, and others who depend more on alternative sources . . . primarily the internet. It’s a whole different window on the world, apparently.<\/p>\n

It may have been several years ago now that I first saw this video . . . it haunted me then, and I’m glad I was able to turn it up quickly with a search of Youtube. Alan Watts describes TV as “the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.\u00a0 . . . it’s changed the whole culture of nations, not just one nation. . . . It becomes you, you become it. . . . They embed ideas into you along with the movies, and predictive programming too.”<\/p>\n

Oh, please<\/strong> just go watch the video — click on the title (just below, or click here<\/a>) to view on Youtube. While it looks like I’ve successfully embedded the video, my efforts to re-size videos in the past have been fruitless. (It is what it is.)<\/p>\n

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