Life without owning a television

Holly and I moved into a new condo a month ago… and we love it! One of the things we did is we sold our tv anv dvd player at our garage sale.  we both have computers and we have wi-fi… so if we really want to watch something you can find most things online.  and we can always watch series or movies on our computer.  in fact, we don’t really watch any television during the week except Lost (at a friends) when it’s on and project runway (online).  otherwise we get our news from websites or NPR… and in fact we are pretty much busy all the time, tv shows aren’t really interesting to us.

 

so that’s us.  i know not everyone else is like that.  TV shows are a big part of their life.  

it is strange to me though.  have you ever NOT watched tv for awhile and then watch again.  it’s very odd.  i totally think you get desensitized to it all… and it just seems the norm.  but when you live real life for awhile without tv then watch it again… it just seems like a lot of hype and shock to keep you interested.  and the thing is is nothing is really real on tv.  it’s all spun and contrived.  i had friends who worked for CNN and they both said never watch CNN for your source for news.  they said it’s all manipulated and half truths.

 

anyway, i don’t want to spend this blog space bitching about how bad tv is.  it’s got good as well.  but i just don’t think it makes my life better.  when i’m old and about ready to die, i’m never going to wish i spent more time watching “lipstick jungle” or all the jackass episodes.  i’m going to wish i did more with real people and did more adventurous things with my life.

 

anywho… a friend told me about this movie called “network” where a guy speaks out against tv.  the networks hate it, but he gets such high ratings so they keep him on the air.  here is an awesome clip from the film….

~ by scotterickson on October 2, 2008.