Sunday morning, having a cup of coffee, was sitting in the living room with my TV tuner in hand, looking for something to watch. Going from one station to another, one thing jumps out at me. It is 9:50 and there are commercials on every channel. One channel looked like it had something of interest to me, some WWII footage of the Russian Front, but there were seven commercials in a row.
One channel did not have commercials, the Big Ten Network, had a football game, Indiana and Illinois, which I saw yesterday, but started to watch it again.
TV, music, movies and sports, about 99 percent of our lives anymore, and the purpose of each is to give our minds, a vacation, fill all that empty time space we have.
I guess it all started, many years ago, with conversations, people just talking. Saturday nights on the square, visiting with friends and neighbors. Books came along very early, reading. Then, radio, followed by TV, and we could all mentally masturbate to our hearts content. It all comes under the heading of ENTERTAINMENT, we have to, somehow, be mentally entertained during all our waking hours. There are no longer any "quiet" places for us.
It is quiet, in this room right now, an occasional car going by, some ringing in my left ear, not sure what that is, but in the background, the Indiana/Illinois game. I am not watching it, but somehow I feel better with the TV on. Don't know why.
As an experiment, I went out and turned the TV off. I am now sitting here, quietly, a little noise from the keys on the laptop, especially the space bar, surrounded by LED's from telephones, computers, the wireless router, the printer, the extension cords and that ringing in my left ear.
The sun is out in Ohio this morning, leaves are turning, a little chill in the air, a beautiful day.
It is nice, just sitting here, being ............... quiet.
Can't take it anymore, have to go watch that game, again.
