I'm visiting my parents for the holidays, and thus there is television and it comes across to me as a complete, non-stop assault.
Glad I'm not the only one. I got rid of cable over a decade ago and coming back to it is SO offensive I can't describe it. I literally cannot stand being around modern TV shows and commercials. It is an assault on my senses at this point.
Part of me wonders if it is all the over stimulation that we all go through. Your brain wants peace and quite, the kind of environment it was meant for. Once you realize not watching tv is a way to get it then that's all you want. Yes that's odd saying not watching tv is an action but really watching tv isn't an action either since it is completely passive.
The problem is the brain likes short instances of stimulation when it is under stimulated, so on goes the tv. But what the brain wanted was five minutes. 3 hours later the tv is still running.
I stopped watching it and particularly stopped watching or reading any news for about a year, and just doing that cured me of my anxiety disorder. It's crazy the effect it has on you - so much of what's reported in the news and presented in TV shows is about horrific things happening, horrific things that could happen to be on your guard for, wall to wall antagonism with angst and drama and violence between people in scripted shows, plus vacuous ruthless rivalry and ritual debasement and humiliation on reality game and competition shows like American Idol, the Bachelor etc etc. It's like it's all geared towards actually giving the public some kind of mass mental illness.
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totesgoats908234 ago
Glad I'm not the only one. I got rid of cable over a decade ago and coming back to it is SO offensive I can't describe it. I literally cannot stand being around modern TV shows and commercials. It is an assault on my senses at this point.
bikergang_accountant ago
Part of me wonders if it is all the over stimulation that we all go through. Your brain wants peace and quite, the kind of environment it was meant for. Once you realize not watching tv is a way to get it then that's all you want. Yes that's odd saying not watching tv is an action but really watching tv isn't an action either since it is completely passive.
The problem is the brain likes short instances of stimulation when it is under stimulated, so on goes the tv. But what the brain wanted was five minutes. 3 hours later the tv is still running.
SpikyAube ago
I stopped watching it and particularly stopped watching or reading any news for about a year, and just doing that cured me of my anxiety disorder. It's crazy the effect it has on you - so much of what's reported in the news and presented in TV shows is about horrific things happening, horrific things that could happen to be on your guard for, wall to wall antagonism with angst and drama and violence between people in scripted shows, plus vacuous ruthless rivalry and ritual debasement and humiliation on reality game and competition shows like American Idol, the Bachelor etc etc. It's like it's all geared towards actually giving the public some kind of mass mental illness.