On Oct 31, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> I was just irritated by the
> suggestion that those who choose not to watch television are joyless,
> self-denying hairshirts.
Since television is often the most accessible avenue to the research of social science via it's products (advertising and pop culture entertainments), those who watch are the 'hairshirts', tracking the division and decline of civilization.