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Opinions/Editorials Title: The end of television? [Time to finally shut it off for good?] There’s plenty of ammunition here for an indictment of television as a tool of leftist propaganda, but as I mentioned above, Ace goes quite a bit further, declaring television inherently useless – if not evil – in and of itself, no matter what program is on the small screen. I’m reminded at this time of my father. He purchased a television by the time I was only a toddler… a big console affair with a tiny, probably 7 inch black and white screen in it. He upgraded it from time to time at my mother’s request, but for the most part Dad hated television. He called it a waste of time. He did have one or two shows which came on in the evening which he would sit and watch, but most of the time he was doing something else. (Oddly enough, his one “appointment TV” show some years later when I was in middle school was the original Kung Fu with David Carradine.) I’m not going to ride to the rescue of television viewing as a way of life here. I think we all realize that if you’re spending six hours a night watching reruns of shows you’ve already seen (I plead guilty on this one too often) then you could be doing something better with your time. During the day I at least have an excuse because my job revolves around the news and I’m flipping back and forth between four news stations most of the time. But I also watch plenty of TV for entertainment, dubious though it may be. Yes, you can claim that the vast majority of television programming tilts to the Left, or possibly crashes full bore in that direction. But if you are such a mindful and independent thinker that you’re willing to take the drastic step to cut the cord, you weren’t in much danger of being brainwashed by liberal ideology in the first place. And cutting those sorts of minds out of the market isn’t going to do anything to dilute the masses who actually are ready to absorb the message. And let’s remember that a lot of what we choose to view is for pleasure, not information. Is entertainment in your leisure hours such a sin? Is any time not spent in productive labor wasted? Ace talks about his desire to get back to reading plenty of books. That’s an admirable goal and I frequently bemoan the number of books on my “to read” list which I haven’t gotten to yet. But let’s face it… reading is entertainment also. He describes television viewing as watching other people’s dreams or doing nothing while watching other people who are actually doing things. But reading is essentially the same activity. It only looks more noble because our own minds are filling in the images. I think the rule of thumb here is the same as with pretty much every other aspect of life: all things in moderation. Most of us could probably do with a bit more raking leaves or taking a walk and less time on the couch, but cutting TV out entirely doesn’t really seem to solve the core problem. If you are spending too much time in front of the boob tube, you’re just allowing yourself to be distracted. And if that’s your natural inclination, you’ll find a different way to waste your time even if the television is gone. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 5.
#2. To: TooConservative, Vicomte13, GarySpFc, liberator (#0)
The boob tube gets worse. At work everyone raves over a History channel show called Vikings. I thought it odd that the same men who are usually wrapped up in talking about hunting, fishing, sports and guns would be interested in a History channel, I presumed, documentary called "Vikings." It only took watching the first episode to realize "Vikings" was not really history but just another fictional production of "History" channel dashed with more 21st century drama and just enough "history" to be justified on the channel. If one is Catholic or any Christian denomination, they would be appalled at the "history" portrayed. One scene had an alleged apostate monk crucified by a bishop. Which of course given the bloody history of some bishops, they could have picked a long line of tortures to drum up. No credible scholar can find crucifixion as a punishment for apostasy. Loads of other bloody torments but crucifixion...not one of them. The series also depicted certain battles not in the proper timeline and happening 50-100 years earlier than recorded. Of course "History" channel must keep things interesting for a 21st century mind. So they cram this all within the life time of the main character. Also throwing in the most loved liberal hedonism and "pure" way of the human sacrificing pagans.
I think that increasingly, conservatives and Christians should be looking at dumping their full cable/sat subscriptions and going for Netflix/Hulu and just watching the stuff they really want. That would lower the amount of revenue to cable providers by being forced to subsidize tons of channels whose content is very liberal or anti-Christian. As long as conservatives and Christians willingly pay to get such content piped into their homes (and those of everyone else), they are playing a losing hand to the secularists and the media moguls, none of whom are Christians or conservative. I think Christian leaders should be spreading this message around, challenging their followers to pull that plug on Big Media.
Great idea. Would also like to see more Christian internet service providers. The whole bundle deal is welfare.
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