Re: Re: Horror for Aspies-Description

[Guest guest]

> The formula for TV is so obvious, I wonder why people put up with it.

> It works like this:

> Aided by the trance induced by the screen (video hypnosis, a

> throwback to when we used to stare into the campfire and tell stories

> and bond as a tribe), a story is told to get the viewers anxious and

> aroused (not necessarily sexually aroused, could be anger, concern,

> fear, etc.) At a point of high excitement, the story is interrupted

> with something to buy. The implication is, " buy this and you will feel

> better " (from the anger, concern, fear, etc, aroused by the

> interrupted story.) And people fall for it, over and over! My

> daughter, NT and reasonably intelligent, has always " had to " have

> whatever she saw on TV. Even though I didn't have a TV, she'd find a

> TV to watch at a neighbor or relative or friend's place, and she'd be

> hooked.

> People think the point of TV is the programs. It isn't The point of

> TV is the commercials, the programs is just to get people to sit still

> long enough to watch the commercials and get into a receptive state

> via the video trance.

I always hated commercials because they make me want to bring up the

contents of my stomach, but I have a great talent: My mind

automatically stops paying attention as soon as they come on.

Sometimes my hubbie will make a comment about the commercial or laugh

and then look at me expecting a response. " Huh? " I say. He's heard

me tell him that I truly and completely zone out on commercials plenty

of times, but he never gets it, lol. But yeah, my mind is great for

turning off the world in a room full of people and entertaining myself

with my own thoughts, always was, but especially as a kid.

I rarely ever watch anything on network TV, where commercialism is the

most aggressive. I love watching movies when I'm in the mood though,

and the cable networks that don't have commercials, such as the Movie

Network, which airs a lot of the HBO series along with recent movie

releases.

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[Guest guest]

It was 27 Dec 2006, when joni pinkney commented:

> Horrors indeed!! thanks for typing that in for me!

> I saw the entire thing in my mind as I read your description and it was

> indeed horrible. And this won some kind of award? For a commercial?

> That's one reason I don't watch TV! The formula for TV is so obvious, I

> wonder why people put up with it. It works like this: Aided by the

> trance induced by the screen (video hypnosis, a throwback to when we used

> to stare into the campfire and tell stories and bond as a tribe), a

> story is told to get the viewers anxious and aroused (not necessarily

> sexually aroused, could b

> e anger, concern, fear, etc.) At a point of high excitement, the story is

> interrupted with something to buy. The implication is, " buy this and you

> will feel better " (from the anger, concern, fear, etc, aroused by the

> interrupted story.) And people fa ll for it, over and over! My daughter,

> NT and reasonably intelligent, has always " had to " have whatever she saw on

> TV. Even though I didn't have a TV, she'd find a TV to watch at a neighbor

> or relative or friend's place, and she'd be hooked.

> People think the point of TV is the programs. It isn't The point of TV

> is the commercials, the programs is just to get people to sit still long

> enough to watch the commercials and get into a receptive state via the

> video trance.

And the point here is that life is a whole lot simpler than it appears,

for me, and for many of the rest of us.

Sorry, not going to elaborate. Those of us who get what I mean there,

already know it, and those that don't, aren't gonna get it, no matter how

much bandwidth I waste trying to explain.

And yeah, been there, lost various body parts, done that, suffered various

agonies. Survived.

Yeah, programs funded by commercials are all about the commercials. And

given that I agree with that, I'm not ready to respond to What That Means,

because I'm in one of my marginally verbal periods, and given that I'm a

telmarketer (for a living) and spend most of my time being verbal, I

haven't enough Stuff left to expand on this. Catch me sometime when I

give a rat's ass.

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[Guest guest]

I am not susceptible to tv ads.

When I watch I don't suspend any beliefs.

Instead-- myriad thoughts course through my awareness:

what did that guy have for breakfast,

how many extras stood in line just for the opportunity to walk in the

background in that city street scene. I wonder if the extra's shirt was

supplied by props or if he walked on wearing it and it was approved,

I wonder if its that woman's first acting job, bet her family's proud to see

her in the public eye but I bet she never does another,

I wonder if they had donuts on the set,

I think that woman's probably sad in real life, something about her is

giving her away, she reaches so much,

etc etc.

I can't pretend enough to " enjoy " most tv, commercials included. The

thoughts I mentioned can be intrusive.

The only true enjoyment tends to be documentaries, or straightforward

learning topics.

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>

>

> > The formula for TV is so obvious, I wonder why people put up with it.

> > It works like this:

> > Aided by the trance induced by the screen (video hypnosis, a

> > throwback to when we used to stare into the campfire and tell stories

> > and bond as a tribe), a story is told to get the viewers anxious and

> > aroused (not necessarily sexually aroused, could be anger, concern,

> > fear, etc.) At a point of high excitement, the story is interrupted

> > with something to buy. The implication is, " buy this and you will feel

> > better " (from the anger, concern, fear, etc, aroused by the

> > interrupted story.) And people fall for it, over and over! My

> > daughter, NT and reasonably intelligent, has always " had to " have

> > whatever she saw on TV. Even though I didn't have a TV, she'd find a

> > TV to watch at a neighbor or relative or friend's place, and she'd be

> > hooked.

> > People think the point of TV is the programs. It isn't The point of

> > TV is the commercials, the programs is just to get people to sit still

> > long enough to watch the commercials and get into a receptive state

> > via the video trance.

>

> I always hated commercials because they make me want to bring up the

> contents of my stomach, but I have a great talent: My mind

> automatically stops paying attention as soon as they come on.

> Sometimes my hubbie will make a comment about the commercial or laugh

> and then look at me expecting a response. " Huh? " I say. He's heard

> me tell him that I truly and completely zone out on commercials plenty

> of times, but he never gets it, lol. But yeah, my mind is great for

> turning off the world in a room full of people and entertaining myself

> with my own thoughts, always was, but especially as a kid.

>

> I rarely ever watch anything on network TV, where commercialism is the

> most aggressive. I love watching movies when I'm in the mood though,

> and the cable networks that don't have commercials, such as the Movie

> Network, which airs a lot of the HBO series along with recent movie

> releases.

>

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