Thu, Apr 3, 2008 I stopped watching TV and playing video games a long time ago because it's such a toilet for my time. I think sitting around for hours at a time watching "lost" is exactly the kind of thing that causes all this disillusionment and apathy, the spiral slide of dullness does not seem to start with disenchantment then to laziness then TV/materialistic pursuits to fill the void... I think it's the other way around. Being lazy leads to nihilism because you get used to not doing anything, and since your brain isn't used to much else its plastic form becomes all fucked up and warped, stuck in that uncomfortable and compromising position, sort of a face-down-ass up thing ready to be taken advantage of by the terrible commercials... now available during the show itself (which is exactly the straw that broke the donkey's back for me to stop watching TV... what the hell? seriously, what the hell). How could it work the other way around in the case of most people these days? Nobody's asking to get raped here. It just happens when ignorance abounds, kind of like how high pregnancy rates correlate with low abundance of female education.
I stopped watching TV and playing video games a long time ago because it's such a toilet for my time. I think sitting around for hours at a time watching "lost" is exactly the kind of thing that causes all this disillusionment and apathy, the spiral slide of dullness does not seem to start with disenchantment then to laziness then TV/materialistic pursuits to fill the void... I think it's the other way around. Being lazy leads to nihilism because you get used to not doing anything, and since your brain isn't used to much else its plastic form becomes all fucked up and warped, stuck in that uncomfortable and compromising position, sort of a face-down-ass up thing ready to be taken advantage of by the terrible commercials... now available during the show itself (which is exactly the straw that broke the donkey's back for me to stop watching TV... what the hell? seriously, what the hell). How could it work the other way around in the case of most people these days? Nobody's asking to get raped here. It just happens when ignorance abounds, kind of like how high pregnancy rates correlate with low abundance of female education.