[578] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: re: sue, bob and jeff
celine@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (celine@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 14 19:57:17 1988
I watch less T.V. than 99% of the population. I enjoy watching basketball,
almost as much as I enjoy playing it, and I do so whenever I get a chance.
These ads are invariably part of the fare in sports advertising. While it
might be argued that I am giving a point of view from a limited television
viewing time cross-section, do not say I am a slave of the tube. At home,
there isn't even a television in the house, and I have no intention of getting
one when I graduate (and move into my own place).
As to my "distorted" world views, they are more a result of my own internal
analysis of the philosophical problems that trouble me, tempered by reflection
on various theories by metapyhsical philosophers, than the result of the
advertisements and basketball games I see on T.V. If your premise that I
watched a lot of television was a valid one, I can see how you might argue
that the basis for my beliefs (if one could also say they were greatly
influenced by T.V. and not by events from *real life* (whatever that is),
that my resulting beliefs would be suspect.
This is not the case. You read my conception on meaninglessness in life,
and you didn't refute it with rational arguments. Though you may believe
it to be distorted (it is, after all, a bit twisted), it isn't something
I pulled out of a hat while sitting on the pot one Saturday morning. As
for changing society, I really don't care enough about temporal societal
changes and attitudes to waste my time changing them. I wasn't protesting
the current status of sensitivity of men in society, I was merely pointing
out how I perceive it.
