On Not Watching TV

Sometimes some aspect of life can disappear and you don't even notice for a long while...

A while back we stopped paying out Comcast bill.  They eventually shut us off, and a few weeks later some guy showed up and retrieved the cable boxes when I wasn't home.

At some point after several weeks of no TV, I realized that the TV no longer worked!

We still have internet and NetFlix, still have the HDTV in the basement for NetFlix BlueRay, and all the XBoxen, Wiii, etc. so it's not like we are unplugged.  We watch TV shows, but when we want to, on our schedule.

So some thoughts are in order in regard to the great wasteland that is TV.

• Wow, the house is quieter in the evenings. Before, there was always the TV in in the evenings and loud too.
• Everyone is doing more interesting things, at a minimum on the computers instead where it is interactive activities.
• The stress of TV is gone, let me explain: Most TV shows, if you get far away and listen to the voice tone instead of the actual words, are all people with tons of stress in their voices.  The 'reality' shows which Weird Al parodies so well, are all borderline psychotic people emoting about some tragedy.  The predominant emotions on TV are stress, fear, violence, fright, anxiety and such.

It is probably 'writing on the wall' that my TV could disappear and I didn't even notice for a few weeks.  The networks are doomed.

TF