Comments on: Birthday Twitter:Cut the Idle Shit http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/03/19/writing-cut-the-idle-shit/ Life during wartime Tue, 22 May 2012 08:18:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ed http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/03/19/writing-cut-the-idle-shit/comment-page-1/#comment-27722 ed Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:21:21 +0000 http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/03/19/birthday-twitterword-processing-ones-own-paper-comments/#comment-27722 Indeed, it cannot. But it's been said so much that people think it's no longer relevant. Last season's show ... Indeed, it cannot.

But it’s been said so much that people think it’s no longer relevant. Last season’s show …

]]> By: Drew http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/03/19/writing-cut-the-idle-shit/comment-page-1/#comment-19779 Drew Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:26:16 +0000 http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/03/19/birthday-twitterword-processing-ones-own-paper-comments/#comment-19779 Thankfully, I was born into households (parents and grandparents) filled with books and, while I watched a fair share of television, it was more than balanced by the voracious reading of books. History books, in particular, shaped my approach to reality. I was born in 1966. As a teen in the 80s, many households did not yet have cable. A VCR did not appear in my home until I was 19. For all the TV watching that we did, us kids growing up in the 70s and 80s still had room for copious book consumption. But video games and the Internet -- the whole computer-driven distraction -- has perhaps closed that gap. I did not get cable TV until my mid-twenties, only to give up that -- and all television -- several years later. It cannot be said enough, that the televisation of reality has caused mass atrophying of the human mind, of the human spirit. Thankfully, I was born into households (parents and grandparents) filled with books and, while I watched a fair share of television, it was more than balanced by the voracious reading of books. History books, in particular, shaped my approach to reality.

I was born in 1966. As a teen in the 80s, many households did not yet have cable. A VCR did not appear in my home until I was 19.

For all the TV watching that we did, us kids growing up in the 70s and 80s still had room for copious book consumption. But video games and the Internet — the whole computer-driven distraction — has perhaps closed that gap.

I did not get cable TV until my mid-twenties, only to give up that — and all television — several years later.

It cannot be said enough, that the televisation of reality has caused mass atrophying of the human mind, of the human spirit.

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