the idiot box

TV Turnoff Week 2001

looks like TV turnoff week has already come and gone for 2002.

like becoming a vegetarian was as simple as not buying cow slices at the store, getting TV out of your life just a simple matter of not turning it on.

Or you could just internalize these messages instead:

“You are boring”
“The people you know are stupid.”
“The things you yourself could do are second rate”
“Thank God you have television to bring glamour
and professional entertainment into your life!”

my favorite book on the subject of TV and its effects is The Disappearance of Childhood