The Boobification of America

And not the good kind either. :)

So at work today there have been too many people talking about some such-and-so TV show, mostly about NASCAR or "The Swan" or "American Idol" or NCAA Tournament or any other number of things.

And it occurred to me, "I wonder what TV show the CEO watches."

I bet he doesn't watch any of those. I bet, if he watches TV at all, it is the news or the market report.

I have come up with an equation:

(Amount of money you make) ~ (1 / hours of TV you watch)

Basically the more money you make, the less you watch TV. Or the other way, the less money you make, the more TV you have to entertain yourself with to stop realizing how bad things are.

You have to boobify yourself by watching the "boob tube" to numb the effects of being poor or not having a life.

I rarely watch TV any more and it is this realization, among many, that makes me not want to numb myself to my life. I am spending so much more time with my friends or reading books or the web (mostly non-fiction) or listening to music.

That's the key. Once you realize that the TV is rotting your brain, the easier it is to get away from it. And it's a continuing process or decay. The more TV you watch, and the edutainment or entertainment or newstainment or whatever you watch, the more it is going to make you rot.

You have to stop watching the fake news and read the real news online. You have to stop sitting on the couch and watching the tube and go out, see the sun, visit friends, do something other than dying in your own living room.

The more you become a boob, the more easily the people feeding you the TV crap will make you think what they want you to think rather than what you want to think.

It is a form of brain-washing. The more something is repeated the more it becomes "the truth", whether it is or not.

Turn it off, do something else and wake up!