This needs no further comment from me if you are at all familiar with my NEWSTRIKE!!! and MEDIASTRIKE!!! memes.
This poor guy just took it a couple of inches further than do most Americans.
Including many of us.
YOU know.
Us “smart” ones.
The ones who wnat to change things.
Google <television + “alpha waves”> for more on this subject. (Here’s a good place to start. Are You Addicted To TV?)
Be afraid.
Be VERY afraid.
And turn the fucking thing off.
Read on.
Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:15 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police called to a Long Island man’s house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set.
The 70-year-old Hampton Bays, New York, resident, identified as Vincenzo Ricardo, appeared to have died of natural causes. Police said on Saturday his body was discovered on Thursday when they were called to the house over a burst water pipe.
“You could see his face. He still had hair on his head,” Newsday quoted morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus as saying. The home’s low humidity had preserved the body.
Officials could not explain why the electricity had not been turned off, considering Ricardo had not been heard from since December 2005.
Neighbors said when they had not seen Ricardo, who was diabetic and had been blind for years, they assumed he was in the hospital or a long-term care facility.
Deep.
TRANCE-state deep.
I hope he was watching something good when he left.
But somehow…I doubt it.
Later…
AG
Thank you.
AG
This seems so sad. The guy must have had no family whatsoever. Nobody tried to contect him – nobody visited or any of that?
Sure it’s sad.
Maybe he got testy when his daily ration of TV was interrupted by live people.
There is LOTS of sadness going on here.
But the saddest thing of all, as far as I am concerned?
The abdication of a quest for the ability to pay attention to the reality of what is happening by the majority of “the left”…including most of us here on the blogs…in favor of managed news that TELLS us what to think.
What to think ABOUT.
Blah blah blah this or that candidate, blah blah blah this or that politician’s “position”.
When in plain point of fact…EVERY candidate and politician who reaches broad media-level visibility is GUARANTEED to have only one position.
One strategic position, anyway.
The continuation of the current corporate-enforced consumerocracy by the use of armed force…whether overt or covert… to impose economic imperialist policies on about 9/10ths of the population of the rest of the world.
The only real disagreement between say BushCo and most of the DemocRats presently in positions of power and/or potential power?
Tactical considerations regarding how best to manage that strategy.
And the most effective tool by far that is used to enforce that ongoing mindwash?
TV.
Bet on it.
We are ALL Vincenzo Ricardo.
Ask not for whom the television blares.
It blares for thee.
Turn it the fuck off.
I got yer “sadness”.
Right HERE!!!
AG
Took your advice and went TV-less last Sept.
Don’t miss it a bit.
GOOD on ya!!!
AG
does this somehow relate to your last diary. I sure he scored pretty high on the addiction level.
Which one do you mean?
My last diary was about Giuliani.
AG
I guess I read the link and didn’t finish reading your post. Must have turned on the TV.
Or been turned on BY the TV.
Like a rabid dog will turn on someone.
AG
how else can I watch Republica Deportiva…Sunday morning?
what am I missing here…
talk about yer addictions…the cat couldn’t see…eliminate the visual, and I guess the audio is just as toxic
who knew?
/march on the pentagon: 3.17.07
Draft Al Gore: 2008
I see your point.
“I see your point” said the blind man to his deaf friend.
A précis of the entire TV->watcher conversation.
AG
“I see your point” said the blind carpenter, as he picked up his hammer & saw.