[TheForge] [YAK] (Was: Shortcut Sword?)

[Mike Spencer]

> ..."Four Arguments For The Elimination Of Television" by an author
> with what I suspect is a pseudonym "Jerry Mander".

Heard him lecture once here in Halifax.  I'm pretty sure that's his
real name.

> One argument...asserts that the most basic trouble with TV lies in
> the technology itself in the context of its effect on the human
> brain.

Why does your dentist have a TV over the chair where you can watch it
while he excavates you central nervous system with a power tool?
Because it tends to put you into a light trance state.

This bit Mander's book about cetacean research guy was, I suspect, a
bit off the track but the rest is, so far as I can tell, bang on.

Ooops.  Looks like I'm joining the lengthy rant/YAK thread.  Wrenched
my back a few days ago and, for a week or so, I'm spending a couple or
three hours in a chair for every hour in the shop.  The chair at the
computer seems to be the most therapeutic...

- Mike

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