^^ Sometimes on a non world-shattering dose (ie, a moderate, introspective, enhancing dose) I enjoy watching TV, because my analytical/introspective ability is tweaked up significantly and one of my most enjoyable and fulfilling mental activities is to analyze the meanings anand connections between things, and with TV it's about seeing the hidden brainwashing techniques, especially in advertising, and the perpetuation of social norms and so forth. For some reason, that kind of thing excites me.
Of course, I'd rather do something outside, but sometimes I find myself inside and feeling like watching some TV with my fiance (whose main distraction is TV).
I enjoy getting a fresh perspective on one of the primary influences of your average American, even if it's usually frightening/sick.
egor said:
Planet earth is amazing just high or even sober
It will be an amazing planet until bush brings about nuclear winter anyway
I'm feeling so much better about this now though, because we're in the home stretch. He's almost out and he's on the defensive... I suspect and hope that we may have escaped that impending disaster. This has nothing to do with political parties. I think those should be done away with in this day and age because the extremely bipartisan party system mainly serves to blind people into choosing candidates for public office without really considering the ones not in their party, which is idiotic to the extreme. Not all Democrats are better than all Republicans, and vice versa. There are good and bad candidates/people in each party, and you need to consider all the factors of every candidate and vote based on who you feel would be best, not based on a blind dislike/scorn of the opposite party.
So many people do this in America that it's terrifying to me. Normally very intelligent people (my father for example) said stuff to me on the 2004 election like "well, I don't think Bush will be good, but fuck if I'm gonna vote for a damn Democrat!" That is mindless. Mindless I say!!
No, it has to do with the fact that the Democrats who have gained the majority and who will most likely win the 2008 election have conservation and the environment in mind, among other important issues that Bush's regime was totally denying/ignoring/disregarding. The environment is such an incredibly important and urgent concern of the entire world that it was incredibly frightening to see Bush and friends put it by the wayside.
But I have regained hope
The future looks bright, I say!