tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post259647980497016414..comments2024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00Comments on What Is Sustainable: Wisdom Sits in PlacesWhat Is Sustainablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-92189600348425746332014-08-12T17:25:55.239-07:002014-08-12T17:25:55.239-07:00I got rid of my TV over 30 years ago. It’s a wond...I got rid of my TV over 30 years ago. It’s a wonderful habit to quit. One of my favorite lines from the Archdruid is in a rant titled <a href="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2011/08/twilight-of-meaning.html" rel="nofollow">Twilight of Meaning</a>:<br /><br />Face it, your television will do you more good at the bottom of a dumpster than it will sitting in your living room, and the latest pirate zombie romantic mystery, with or without Jane Austen, is better off gathering cobwebs in a warehouse; you don’t need any of it, and it may well be wrecking your capacity to think clearly.What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-40021011725132753742014-08-12T07:00:38.354-07:002014-08-12T07:00:38.354-07:00The story of the changes in Indian youth exposed t...The story of the changes in Indian youth exposed to corporate television reminds me of Jerry Mander's seminal works, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977) and In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations (1992).<br /><br />Mander documented the change in the youth of Canadian First Nations people as soon as they were exposed to television. They not only lost their interest in their own culture, but became aggressive and hyperactive.<br /><br />What Mander discovered, during the time when viewers were concerned about "subliminal messaging" allegedly embedded in TV shows, was that it was the very nature of the technology, requiring long periods of passivity, that "embedded" a change of character and behavior, and resulted in explosions of non-constructive activity later.Riversonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05413657075902226702noreply@blogger.com