Mar 13 2008
Elimination of Television…
A few years ago Michal and I decided that we don’t want to have TV anymore – we disconnected from cable, and ever since we don’t get any TV. We do watch DVD movies and TV series still.
I had just finished reading a fascination book – ‘Four arguments for the elimination of TV‘, by Jerry Mander. He claims that TV is so inherently bad, that we can only eliminate it – we cannot hope to reform it. It’s hard to summarize this book – the arguments are interesting and convincing – but it cannot be summarized into a sentence or two – which is exactly what TV tends to do to issues – and one of the things Jerry doesn’t like about it.
Anyway it’s a good read – if only for the health relating argument which is fascination. I never considered ‘light’ to be so interesting!