noel emits
a wonderful wooden reason
No, it's just an additional sweetener.True enough in principle, but I think that, in practice, mild subversion isn't the reason why people abandon their criticality on important issues.
No, it's just an additional sweetener.True enough in principle, but I think that, in practice, mild subversion isn't the reason why people abandon their criticality on important issues.
I haven't said it's a pacifying medium.
noel emits said:The problem is that the medium itself is such an effective attention grabber. People know the characters in Eastenders better than their own neighbours, and what's going on in Guatemala better than who runs their own local council.
I'm reliably informed that Domino's Pizza is very good for you and represents excellent value for money.
If that's true I suppose I might find it entertaining. I used to think that South Park managed that but their limits became very apparent after that business in New York a few years ago.By the way, if you watch any of the later seasons of the simpsons, you'll see they've subverted far more than you give them credit for - now they display (and I think subtlety encourage) a complete adandonment of values, and sense. Now is that a good thing, or because it's TV, is it a dangerous sociological double (triple? quadruple) bluff?
But that's not the point. They still have your attention! That's all that TV demands of you.
You are Homer Simpson and I claim my five cans of Duff.And the TV gives me entertainment in return. Seems like a fair two-way exchange to me. The moment I cease to be entertained I turn it off and do something else.
Not mine. I grew up in a house where we - gasp! - talked to each other at dinner time. I have friends and housemates who like to talk about stuff. Doesn't mean we sit around deconstructing Schoppenhauer every night, of course, and when we want to watch TV we watch TV. Your argument sounds a bit like "some people eat McDonald's every day, therefore burgers should be made illegal".You are Homer Simpson and I claim my five cans of Duff.
Have you noticed though how in so many households TV is used as a kind of ambience?
I resent the implication that my worldview isn't perfectly squalid enough to begin with, thanks.And have you met many people who work in TV? Do you really want them smearing their squalid worldview over the whole country?
This all started because swears hates music and baboon2004 knows too many po-faced pseudo-twats. And because I was impressed by this random old geezer's tale of bravely shunning television in the face of social ostracism.Has it got a bit straight-edge in here this afternoon, or is it just me?
For my part I've been shooting smack all afternoon.
So come on, which one of you was in Ned's?
a half-decent sit-com now and then.