And on these couches I've watched more TV than anyone should ever watch...Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, Live Kelly, Cityline, it's all idiocy. Sheer and utter vacuous idiocy. I never realized it was this bad.
The new couch, they've got cable, all the channels, 150 or more. New shows, things like Thrift Hunters, which sounds like it would be right up my alley, only it's more garbage, people going to Value Village and buying trash to resell on for a hefty profit on eBay, and watching the credits I see that Telefilm Canada had a hand in it, other Canadian sponsors, why, given it's set in the US, the show looks like it had a budget of roughly $25.00 per episode, hours spent surfing the guide to find nothing to watch, movies, entertainment, the most preposterous confabulations passed off as history, endless unreality, talk shows, interrupted by unending adverts for rubbish, new cars, products, junk food, quack medicines with little hope of remedy and a long list of dire and possibly fatal side effects, if the illness doesn't kill you the cure most certainly will, the promoted prescriptions promising a physical cure for a purely spiritual disease, malaise, the virus of bad ideas and inferior morality passed on to consumers through the very medium that only a short advertisement ago was promising a cure...Just turn it off and the healing will begin. Read a book. Go for a walk. Talk to a human being.
It's insane.
At a friends, Netflix, watching a documentary on Minimalism, she's not getting it, she notices every for 50% off advert, every expansive shoe collection, admiring the ostentation, the very lavish houses and lifestyles the show is seeking to condemn, her attention, she's proving the point...
Days Pass.