Tv-Set Massacre by agoasi on Flickr under cc license. (Source: click on illustration.) The problem with Tv sets is that they pollute your mind when you turn them on and watch them – and they add to pollution when you trash them. It’s a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” kind of problem. It’s trash any which way one takes it. As for me, I gave it to someone who… needed one. Yes, I know… That invention is both, literally, a pain in the a** and a scourge. There is no way out, it seems, except eliminating the whole stinking gremlin forever through forceful dematerialisation…
En français: Ma télé décédait il y a plus de 12 ans. Bon débarras.
For years and years, until February 1998, I watched tv regularly to obtain some information.
Finally, I got rid of the tv set more than twelve years ago. I never regretted it. Believe me, it’s worth it. It’s a lying box. And a deceiving tyrant.
When one turns on the tv set, what it always says implicitly is: “Sit down, shut up and listen.”
And we always, but always, OBEY.
You can zap the thing forever, the obnoxious bully will always deliver the same implicit message. Always. And you will always submit and obey. Always.
Millions of people have submitted themselves to that mind-degrading servitude for decades, and are still doing it with an astounding sense of confidence and duty, while daydreaming and proclaiming pompously that they were – or are – free people enjoying their “godgiven” freedoms. Their godgiven freedoms to submit, to obey, to sit down, to regress, to weaken, to shut up, to listen… to what?…
Usually, to groomed lifted faces with rehearsed studied smiles, to soapy voices and overly paid arnaqueurs who more often than not will lead people down some brand new garden path, one after an other.
If this is not a patent case of pathetic mass hypnosis, I don’t know what is.
With my best thoughts, however, to all those who still submit to the same slick bully, and still watch him or her with regular fervor, shock, awe or irritation, or are convinced they still must rely on the lying box: sincerely, after all I’ve said, I can’t judge you.
I kept doing the same silly thing for years.
© Copyright 2009 Hamilton-Lucas Sinclair (Loup Kibiloki, Jacques Renaud, Le Scribe), cliquer
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Merci Loup,
maintenant j’ai compris. Ca marche.
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“Chic, alors!!”
Tintin.
En passant, ton “lapsus ordinateur” s’expliquerait… :-)
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Oh oui !
Je ne suis pas douée pour la technologie électronique.
Je te souhaite une bonne journée, Loup.
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:)
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Bonjour Loup,
pourrais-tu me renseigner comment afficher les “widgets” sur la colonne a droite sur le blog de WordPress. “Drag” – et alors? Quand je lache la sourris, le mot ne reste pas sur place!
Merci,
Olivia Eva
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Est-ce que tu places bien le widget à l’intérieur de l’espace pointillé qui apparait à droite quand tu “dragues” le widget sur la colonne de droite?
Keep me posted :) Loup.
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Chez moi pas d’ espace pointillé à droite quand je drague le widget, désolée. Il y a juste la “colonne droite”.
Avant il fallait seulement cliquer sur les widgets pour les activer. C’était plus facile.
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Si ça continue à pas marcher avec les widgets, te gênes pas pour me le dire. On va trouver la solution. Loup.
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As-tu ouvert ta colonne Widget en cliquant sur la petite flèche à droite de “Sidebar” (ou “Sidebar 1”)?
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J’ai installé ton thème (“Mistylook” – le thème de ton nouveau blog — Olivia2010Kroth) sur un autre blog que j’ai créé — et les widgets, j’ai testé, ça va.
Tiens-moi au courant.
Loup.
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Bonjour Loup,
je te souhaite une bonne nouvelle année.
Je suis très heureuse de vivre sans ordinateur depuis longtemps.
Je préfère lire et écrire.
Amitiés
Olivia Eva
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Sans “ordinateur”? T’es sûre que c’est pas un lapsus? :-) … Bonne année à toi, Eva :)
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Tu as raison.
Je voulais écrire “sans TV”.
Olivia Eva
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