The conversation on FW is moving a bit too fast for me. It's kinda
like the cowboy in the B-grade western who "mounted his horse and rode
off in all directions". :-)
So I'm a bit tardy in my responses, but the irony did not totally
escape me, that when I slagged television:
It's been 60 years now, since commercial television became
ubiquitous, 40 or more years since the average [1] TV-watching
time has been hovering somewhere between 20 and 30 hours a week.
That's the equivalent of a light-to-medium university course
load. And every bit of it carries the imprimatur of large
institutions who are diligently trying to control the viewer's
behavior, typically to get the viewer to buy something; at least
to accept that "buying something" is the default core subject of
public discourse.
[snip etc. etc.]
and Arthur replied:
> Every once in a while I like to go back and listen to Howl.
>
> Here is Allen Ginsberg Reading Howl (Part 1)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50
the effect of my flossinaucinihilipilification of TV sent Arthur off
to watch a video. :-o
Oh, well, I'm not down on the medium, per se. I've actually worked
(albeit avocationally and peripherally) on animation/video/multimedia
projects. But, you know, "Give a man a medium and you'll intrigue him
for a day. Give a giant coporation a medium and it'll turn it into
tool for global hegemony". Or something like that.
> Your posting put me in the mood.
Sorry, Arthur. I'll try, in the future, for a little more levity and a
little less "Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone. Moloch whose
soul is electricity and banks."
- Mike
--
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