On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Angelus Novus < fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sean A.
>
> > You could go the Carrol route and never turn on the TV at all, but
> sometimes
> >it's fun to not be an angry, disappointed leftist for a few minutes a day.
> >
>
> Maybe you need some special rationalization so you like to shit on people
> who
> don't own one, but frankly I will join ranks with Carrol. I also do not
> own a
> television, and I don't suffer any particular lack from it.
>
> I have a large-screen computer monitor, and a DVD drive, and am able to
> watch
> everything worth watching. The widespread adoption of DVD means anyone can
> have
> a collection of movies encompassing Godard, Hitchcock, Fassbinder,
> Tarkowski,
> Wertow, Murnau, Lang, or Welles without any difficulties. Any good to
> excellent
> television series eventually make it onto DVD, where they can be watched in
> a
> block rather than the irritating serial form (and I think the form of
> serial
> cliff hanger for series like the Sopranos clouded peoples' judgement at the
> time
> in terms of being able to assess how good it actually was).
>
> In the 21st Century there is less reason than ever to own a television.
>
>
>
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