[WS:] When you study bowel movement, taking a small sample is sufficient - you do not need to take the full load on a daily basis. Ditto for television and pop culture.
Wojtek
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.
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> 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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