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Anonymous Sat Apr 1 21:25:54 2023 No.21861253 [Reply] [Original]

Stop watching television

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 21:26:51 2023 No.21861255 >>21861253 I stopped years ago

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 21:28:53 2023 No.21861265 i have. i think i last had cable in 2013

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 21:30:02 2023 No.21861268 >>21861253 already did

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 21:34:47 2023 No.21861284 >>21861253 But it's the first season of Arrested Development. It's comedic shakespeare.

Anonymous Sat Apr 1 21:36:02 2023 No.21861288

>>21861253
I already did, I replaced it with a constant stream of content youtube picks for me based on my previous preferences, and to spice it up I also consume anonymous posts on the fourth channel (not television) and entertain myself by crafting replies that either match my real views or completely oppose them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 21:38:13 2023 No.21861300 Stop lecturing me while you're schtupping your undergraduate students

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 22:37:20 2023 No.21861487 >>21861253 make me

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 22:38:59 2023 No.21861492 What was his take on television?

Melvin Meza Sat Apr 1 22:51:14 2023 No.21861522

>>21861253
After having read Bowling Alone, I learned of the dangers of television on social cohesion and vowed to never use a TV again. I still spend 90% of my free time on my phone or computer though.<div class="xa23b"><span class="xa23t"></span><span class="xa23i"></span></div>

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 22:53:22 2023 No.21861531 >>21861253 I stopped in 2005.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 1 22:56:48 2023 No.21861549 >>21861492 Here's a little 50 second clip where he talks about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ujr9gi3wk

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 05:41:48 2023 No.21862859 >>21861549 isn't that how all of life is? grass is always greener on the other side or something like that

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 05:52:18 2023 No.21862878 I haven't watched a TV regularly since 2006, when I replaced it with a crippling imageboard addiction.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 05:56:04 2023 No.21862882 >>21861549 I'm so glad this moron killed himself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 05:56:38 2023 No.21862884 >>21861253 Lol, ok boomer. I’ve never seen anyone my age watch tv. No cap we just all download shit on our laptops.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 05:59:16 2023 No.21862889 TV is TikTok now. In fact it's the same idea, it's a constant stream of shit made to eat up your time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 06:06:34 2023 No.21862897 >>21862884 I visited my mum and uncle recently and they both watch TV and read the (physical) newspaper. It was like stepping in a time machine

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 14:09:06 2023 No.21863714 >>21861549 he clearly lost confidence in what he was saying by the end.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 14:28:49 2023 No.21863782 >>21861253 You can't READ Malcom in the middle idiot

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 14:34:56 2023 No.21863800 >>21861284 I was very late to the party on that show but it really is great. And then I did my typical nerd thing I do with things I enjoy and looked up trivia, behind the scenes info, etc and ended up being impressed by it in a new way. Awesome show.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 14:45:15 2023 No.21863829 >television bad >big postmodern novels with constant distractions, digressions and endnotes, good

Anonymous Sun Apr 2 14:50:04 2023 No.21863840

>>21863829
Someone anon on here said that that was DFWs intention with Infinite Jest. To have it kind of mirror the experience of watching television with all the footnotes and the writing style and whatnot. I'm not sure if that was just that Anons theory or if it's something he saw in an interview or read in a review though. Im also not sure it even makes sense entirely or is plausible. Just sharing something pertinent to your post that I heard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 16:10:05 2023 No.21864148 >>21863840 That should be evident to anybody who has read the novel. It's not really a theory.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 16:11:57 2023 No.21864153 >>21861253 i did long ago, i only watch youtube now, which is parasocially more destructive by magnitudes

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 16:20:18 2023 No.21864185 TV is boomer shit. It's irrelevant to Gen Z, the closest thing for them is streaming from Netflix or anime websites. No one under 50 is still paying for cable or tuning into ABC CBS NBC FOX

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 16:23:16 2023 No.21864196 >>21863800 Yeah, it really was great. And I watched it at time when everything was coming up millhouse for me, so rewatching is bittersweet. Shame what they did with season 4 on. But that's netflix for you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 16:24:05 2023 No.21864199 >>21864185 and for good reason. we can cut out the middleman of tv networks and advertisers and just get right to the content

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 17:52:21 2023 No.21864516 >>21864185 Tv usurped the place of the radio. Now it's just painting with changing pictures and some background noise. You are still watching television. You just don't notice it anymore. This is specially true to gen Z.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 2 21:12:36 2023 No.21865295 >>21861253 haven't watched TV since around 2012 anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 03:28:35 2023 No.21866465 >>21861253 I want to stop emitting light from my eyes

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 03:30:57 2023 No.21866478 File: 5 KB, 226x173, cyclops-msh5.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I CAN'T FUCKING SEE A THING

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 04:58:08 2023 No.21866703 >>21866478 How does his vision works?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 09:12:47 2023 No.21867131 File: 553 KB, 486x750, dfbef577-6abd-4d78-9eae-3fc2cda5bc76.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21861253 The TV era is long over. We replaced it with tiktok and similar brainrots fueled by satanic algorithms

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 17:13:51 2023 No.21868224 >>21861549 this applies to browsing the internet so much more and yet you need a computer to write and work

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 17:42:40 2023 No.21868337 >>21861549 Is it ok to watch a YouTube video of this though?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 18:30:59 2023 No.21868479 File: 482 KB, 1607x1305, 0880E931-79D5-40C5-B2B4-73CF125E3EC9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21861253 Especially if you’re white Or white adjacent

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 18:32:40 2023 No.21868484 He sort of advocated watching television in one of his essays titled E Unibus Pluram.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 18:43:22 2023 No.21868523 >>21861253 What about surfing the internet? Did he say anything about that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 19:59:36 2023 No.21868796 >>21861284 never liked that shot. too dry. and not funny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 22:00:36 2023 No.21869248 >>21868484 You have no idea what that essay is about if that was your takeaway, unless you mean he advocates watching it for the purposes of deconstruction or understanding of the TV culture conundrum.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 22:55:39 2023 No.21869444 >>21868224 That's why i do manual labour. No computers on sight. Just sweet old fucked up kidneys my dad had

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 3 23:00:47 2023 No.21869460 >>21869444 >bad back >bad knees The joys of manual labor.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 00:56:43 2023 No.21869851 >>21861549 isnt this just called fomo? not that profound

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 01:28:55 2023 No.21869958 >>21861253 >Stop watching television In which essay does he talk about it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 08:36:58 2023 No.21870919 >>21861253 I stopped in 2008 when I moved out from my boomers parents home.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 08:45:35 2023 No.21870928 File: 334 KB, 792x1421, assorted quotes from nicholas carrs the shallows.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] STOP using the internet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 4 08:58:42 2023 No.21870948 File: 52 KB, 736x490, 007a8e9142844ca33901130135aefe65.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What would he have said about Twin Peaks the return?

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