On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:57 PM, martin schiller <mschiller at pobox.com>wrote:
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> On Oct 31, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
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> > 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.
>
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