I agree completely: turn off your TV and do something constructive. Enjoy life, don’t pay money for watching other people doing nothing with theirs!
Alex - 16 02 08 - 11:08

So true. Sometimes I think the only purpose of American Idol is to breed idle Americans.
GD Will - 16 02 08 - 20:24

im not really on the tv but im on the computer alot crap im on now
ava () - 16 02 08 - 21:37

I’m not totally against TV, but what you’re saying is true. Many people isolate themselves to a room and spend hours zombified, only to get up to eat and piss, often at the same time to conserve fat. Also, there is no reality TV. The only contestant on Survivor that could actually survive is Yowman, because he’s just that badass. I’ve yet to see a TV show that even remotely resembles an actual person’s life. It breeds laziness, envy, and fear, but at the same time, it can be quite useful if used the right way. Nothing is ever invented to be good or bad, it’s invented to be used. I get home from work and watch maybe 30 min of Family Guy, which gets me in a better mood. But some people just don’t know when to stop. It all depends on how you use it.
AND. The media may have many flaws, but you must admit, not knowing the forecast might set you back a little in those jogging runs.
Watch TV. Don’t abuse it. The body is the temple.
Kaleb () - 18 02 08 - 07:16

TV: just brainwash. nothing more. nothing less.
spawn - 18 02 08 - 09:08

I dont watch tv i just have it on constantly because i need something to break the silence.
Ricardo () - 18 02 08 - 20:24

ya i dont watch tv cus i came to the same conclusion. however i cant say never because occassionally i do watch some cartoons. on another note though music is also a good way to break the silence.
Box () - 18 02 08 - 20:46

i know its bad to watch tv but what is there to do during like 2 o’clock in the morning?
$teve-O - 23 02 08 - 00:08

Steve-O I used to feel the same way but I think reading is a much better way to free ur mind as to where tv is just controlling it. See in books or even music U dont get a visual image which allows ur mind to wander freely. However on tv ur getting exactly the info they want u to get. Sad i know but its reality. U could even start some form of art where u express urself like writting singing or even drawing/painting. There are alot of different ways to free ones mind but tv is not one of them lol
Box () - 23 02 08 - 09:02

I just brought a 42in LCD for £500. It was an ex-demo so I got it about £300 cheaper. It isn’t TV thats the problem – TV is just a technology, TV is just a conduit, TV is a great invention. The problem is that what is shown on TV is so narrowly controlled. The problem is we have to pay £130 a year just to watch the bloody thing – that money goes straight to the
government official broadcaster.
I must admit I’m not actually an anarchist. I’m probably gonna vote BNP at the next opportunity. But i do have a problem
with capitalism, debt and the race for growth.
Andy () - 24 02 08 - 07:03

Excuses, excuses, excuses.

And you people want a new society? How are you going to achieve anything remotely “revolutionary” when spending your life on your butt, watching “entertaining” commercials promoting a rotten system?

Watching TV is like anal sex: bend over and receive.
Alex - 24 02 08 - 11:10

I am kinda the same way execept i have no problems with watching a few of my favorite shows every day. But at the same time you shouldent waist your life on it.
Physco Wolf () - 27 02 08 - 10:39

The worst part about television is it teaches you NOTHING.
If only it was mindless reality shows and MTV.
Neal - 29 02 08 - 16:10

wait! What is this? Isn’t the point of anarchy freedom? Then why are we being told how anarchists live or should live? I’m not giving disrespect or anything, but shouldn’t anarchists live the way they want to? Just my opinion…
kevin - 29 02 08 - 20:35

Kevin’s right… is there really a “True” anarchist? Watching television is a personal choice, although it isn’t a big secret that TV is the decadence of imagination and thought. Filling ourselve’s up with sex, violence, and pure stupidity isn’t going to do us any good, but some people rather enjoy it. I, for one, ove the Cobert Report.
BURN - 01 03 08 - 00:04

Definately it can cause Zombification, and there are a whole load of better ways to spend your time, but the occasional episode of Family guy or (I know I’m gonna get burned for this) Neighbours isn’t going to break your head.
Trog () - 03 03 08 - 06:33

tv is worthless, i’m not going to bash it, because as it was said, who are we, anarchists, to decide what others should do? my only point is that, when i watch tv i don’t dream, i don’t do, i just sit, and that doesn’t advance my happiness, it does not truly entertain me and worst of all it makes me aware of what my fellow human beings find amusing, so it inspires disgust for those beyond the system, and truly that is not what i want. anarchy should be about freeing people, even the leaders of the system, from the system, hate can’t have a part in the revolution.
ellectorallydysfunktional - 03 03 08 - 20:08

As Tim Wise once said about home programing, “... home decorating? THROW THE TV OUT OF THE WINDOW!”

Live and let live, but watching five hours of TV DOES tend to stagnate the brain.

Believe me, I used to watch a LOT of bad Nick cartoons when I was a kid. Now I only watch the news and only several programs which are always recored in advance.

-JN.
Jasmine Naqvi (URL) - 08 03 08 - 22:52

Fun fact- when you watch TV, your brain is in fact less active than when you sleep!
Hear Hear, comrades! Fuck TV! It is yet another means by which those who own the means of production can use commodities to enslave us, and so devious is it that we are trained to think as they want us to while we pay them for the indoctrination! Indoctrination to buy more of their products made with materials harvested from our native soils, our public lands; they’re selling our own stuff back to us for a greasy buck!
Unimportant - 13 03 08 - 09:39

Ah, transnationalism and globalization all rolled into one. Delectable yet deplorable.

-JN.
Jasmine Naqvi () (URL) - 13 03 08 - 10:16

I decided to stop watching T.V after noticing the structure of the evening news and thinking goddamit police state mind controll etc etc etc. I dont know if this makes me an anarchist but I am definitely against government when it’s interests are not with the people.
In my opinion T.V would be ok if the elements of control and manipulation weren’t so prevalent.
Maniac () - 01 04 08 - 04:19

Ultimately there is always something better you could be doing instead of watching T.V so it’s often a form of weakness. There are programmes where you can learn things and let’s not forget, that there are many TV programmes that are a lot more valuable than a lot of the terrible books that are on sale these days, yet reading will usually get more credit than watching T.V, even if you are reading Russel Brand’s autobiography or something equally as worthless. Playing sport with other human beings will be always be a more healthy and positive experience, and one where you can channel negative energies into positive ones. Sitting around watching telly will only serve as a build up for pent up energy. I do enjoy watching crap TV occasionally with people who are intelligent and witty because the pisstaking out of TV can be hilarious and sometimes find myself crying with laughter, usually during the night though or if it’s pissing with rain outside. Sad people start to take an interest in the lives of celebrities and footballers and can start to disregard themselves as an ‘escape’ from their own life. These people need to sort it out or face the possibility of becoming more and more nervous and crazy and never getting off their arse and being counted themselves.
James Rey () - 06 04 08 - 09:13

hi ava
slc punk - 21 04 08 - 18:41

Watching tv induces a state of semi-hypnosis and affects the entire physical structure of your brain. it can also induce serious problems like a state of demonic possesion, agressive behavior and numbness. It limits your imagination because it gives you everything already imaginated ( image, sound, emotion ). All there things come from scientific studies and are cited from a romanian book on this subject.
bp9 () (URL) - 05 05 08 - 23:55

The only TV I watch is Adult Swim.
But other than anime and some cartoons I am against TV.

I can’t stand reality shows.
Austin - 07 05 08 - 17:37

all are true i wish peaple would turn off there damm tv and fuckin do something i mean tv is just another way for the goverment to make money…..
there is many other things to do besides watch fuckin tv all the damm time
listen to music and head bang
Devan () - 21 05 08 - 11:11

I enjoy t.v. but unfortunatly i damn neer have to, im very limited on my choices in life, my dads a construction worker, and my mom has no say, so the things i would perfer to do, i am punished for doing, even if it means just making myself a pair of pants
Joker () (URL) - 28 05 08 - 15:39

I agree why should we watch t.v. when we have something better to do why not just sit in front of a computer and type about how much we hate "the man" thats much more productive.
sdj - 17 06 08 - 21:14

All I have to say is, don’t buy into what your watching. Go ahead and watch tv if you please, noone has the right to make you do something else. Just don’t become wat it is that your watching, cuz its pretty much all fake, and chalk full of lies.
Zidane - 17 07 08 - 15:46