tv, parenting, and everything else (rant)
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Didn't read the entire post (too long, short attention span). My thoughts:
1 -- tv is bad for ANY age (Lowest Common Denominator crap with propaganda-commercials that help fuel our consumer-driven economy). tv not only demoralizes women, but men as well AND children.
2 -- this is yet another case outlining a disturbing trend in this country. NO ONE WANTS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR KIDS' ACTIONS. With the increasing use of Day Care, parents do not raise their own young. Also, parents do not want to take the blame for their kids performance in schools--it's ALWAYS the school's fault! If the school/teacher tries to defend themselves they can get SUED. It seems to me that the government (or whatever you choose to call it) is slowly taking the role of a Parent. So-called parents these days are nothing but sperm-donors and gestators. These "parents" will PAY to have ANYONE else raise their kids, spend time with them, and take all other responsibilities. The idea of a family unit continues to disintegrate; and future generations of people will be stranger and stranger yet as the young will start by reared entirely by INSTITUTIONS only. Who knows what this will do to our current concept of humanity?
I wonder if Bill Gates is a big Gibson fan--it seems that the term "microsoft" comes from Neuromancer. Another odd thing is Gates' digital image collection that he supposedly "owns" (owning digital images!). In at least one of the Gibson novels, a very rich man also does the very same thing...
Some French guy has made this 3-d display system... http://www.micronet.fr/~emuller/alio2.ht ml. According to them, is sounds like the greatest thing since flying toast, but I can't remember enough about optics to determine how real this is.
Even without this latest atrocity, the TV must be destroyed. The TV medium is the lowest common denominator crap content sponsored by crap commercials also pandering to the lowest common denominator characteristics of the human race. And all for what--the opportunity to sit and DO nothing? If one must sell their soul for something, at least one should get a return on it.
Well, for me, the good ol' days mainly just involved playing the Zork series on my C64--simply the best games ever. Why? Because they don't contain any graphics whatsoever! Just text--plain text, and good stories:)
This response was an excellent counter (to the FUD that should never have been published by IEEE) -- well written and very informative (for me anyway).
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Didn't read the entire post (too long, short attention span). My thoughts:
1 -- tv is bad for ANY age (Lowest Common Denominator crap with propaganda-commercials that help fuel our consumer-driven economy). tv not only demoralizes women, but men as well AND children.
2 -- this is yet another case outlining a disturbing trend in this country. NO ONE WANTS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR KIDS' ACTIONS. With the increasing use of Day Care, parents do not raise their own young. Also, parents do not want to take the blame for their kids performance in schools--it's ALWAYS the school's fault! If the school/teacher tries to defend themselves they can get SUED. It seems to me that the government (or whatever you choose to call it) is slowly taking the role of a Parent. So-called parents these days are nothing but sperm-donors and gestators. These "parents" will PAY to have ANYONE else raise their kids, spend time with them, and take all other responsibilities. The idea of a family unit continues to disintegrate; and future generations of people will be stranger and stranger yet as the young will start by reared entirely by INSTITUTIONS only. Who knows what this will do to our current concept of humanity?
--Coffee Inside
I wonder if Bill Gates is a big Gibson fan--it seems that the term "microsoft" comes from Neuromancer. Another odd thing is Gates' digital image collection that he supposedly "owns" (owning digital images!). In at least one of the Gibson novels, a very rich man also does the very same thing...
Some French guy has made this 3-d display system... http://www.micronet.fr/~emuller/alio2.ht ml. According to them, is sounds like the greatest thing since flying toast, but I can't remember enough about optics to determine how real this is.
Even without this latest atrocity, the TV must be destroyed. The TV medium is the lowest common denominator crap content sponsored by crap commercials also pandering to the lowest common denominator characteristics of the human race. And all for what--the opportunity to sit and DO nothing? If one must sell their soul for something, at least one should get a return on it.
Also, our house does NOT have any TV sets.
Love,
Chris
now someday I can have a computer in my brain, can't wait...
This should be called "microsoft" like the guy who wrote Neuromancer called it.
Well, for me, the good ol' days mainly just involved playing the Zork series on my C64--simply the best games ever. Why? Because they don't contain any graphics whatsoever! Just text--plain text, and good stories :)
Excellent rant, BTW.
This response was an excellent counter (to the FUD that should never have been published by IEEE) -- well written and very informative (for me anyway).