Comments on: Consuming http://motespace.com/blog/2006/06/12/consuming/ Disclaimer: The following web space does not contain my own opinions, merely linguistic representations thereof. Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:12:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 By: mote http://motespace.com/blog/2006/06/12/consuming/comment-page-1/#comment-4951 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:04:57 +0000 http://fairuz.isi.edu/blog/index.php/2006/06/12/consuming/#comment-4951 Yes, I haven’t owned a TV for the past… 10 years or so? I don’t think I really miss it.

But then, there’s plenty of other things that demand attention besides TV… thankfully not as many of them operate on the same self-serving, business-driven principles that the TV networks do =)

]]> By: Ettsem http://motespace.com/blog/2006/06/12/consuming/comment-page-1/#comment-4950 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:11:44 +0000 http://fairuz.isi.edu/blog/index.php/2006/06/12/consuming/#comment-4950 Quote: We don’t just consume information, information also consumes us.

I can appreciate that perspective. In fact, I disconnected my television a few months ago because I was tired of having conventional thinking beamed into my brain. (Some shows did rise above our cultural noise, but not very far; television is a business and it can’t afford to say anything that will seriously rock the boat.)

Quote: I don’t like this metaphor of being consumed, it feels too passive and fatalistic to me. But maybe it’s true.

It was coming true for me. That’s why my television can only display snow these days.

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