OK, John, so I get that point now ... I see where it was in the original mail, but I had struggled to see which were quotes and which parts you were taking exception to. ... In any event I'd need to modify my (dis)-agreement ...
Using my 90% crap analogy. (The 90% is optional) (Thoreau's "most penny posts ain't worth a penny".) Non-intellectual TV (entertainment, sit-coms, serial dramas, satirical cartoons) are 90% crap Wanna-be Intellectual TV (like everything else) are 90% crap. The 10% that isn't crap is very valuable (as I said, whether it claims to intellectual or entertainment). Most of the 90% crap is "mostly harmless" to quote Douglas Adams. But a significant part of the crap is dangerous (again whether it claims to be intellectual or not) - but we can handle it by discernment. It is of course easier to discern the non-intellectual crap, so the intellectual crap is more dangerous. Got there in the end ? Allow me perhaps, that everyday crap is not dangerous, but too much crap can be ? (Crap posing as intellect being the most dangerous) As far as the internet goes it re-inforces / scales-up the need for discerment .... I quoted George Dyson "Paddling Logs" (?) ... but again that discernment is NOT intellectual, it's about quality. (You'll have to come back to the steer on why you don't own a TV ? Part of my confusion, sorry.) Ian On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:27 AM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hee hee indeed, Sir IG, > > > He hee. >> Media as epistemology ? You maybe already heard "The medium was the >> message". >> I think I did get the point. >> >> Trivial TV IS dangerous, no argument there. >> My point was / is that the trivia is not always obvious. ie TV is not >> synonymous with trivia >> >> > I don't think you got the point at all. Oh well, third time's a charm. > > The point wasn't that trivial tv is dangerous. The point was exactly the > OPPOSITE of that. The point was that tv is BEST, is doing it's HIGHEST good > when it provides trivial entertainment to keep people amused and it's doing > its WORST, it's most evil and degrading work when it's educating or > informing or dabbling in intellectualism, when it pretends to bequeath true > information about history or the cosmos and leads the populace into trite > and overblown assumption of complicated cosmological theories treated as > FACT because they come with snappy graphics and "expert" opinion. > > > I agree tv is not synonymous with trivia. That's the problem. > > > John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
