tube and tubal

[Joseph Tracy]

1st  some high tech questions. I converted to Plain text as Tim  
requested but notice from my end that I am not getting posts from  
Henry Musikar or Robin Landseadel. ???

Of course tubal detox sounds funnier than tube detox , but it is also  
a term for a procedure to prevent pregnancy called a tubal ligation,  
or tubal for short ((having the fallopian tubes tied to prevent  
gestation).  This sense of being cut off from life, from the exchange  
of chromosomes and the unpredictable and uncontrollable results seems  
like part of the 1984 TV theme. There is even a scene where Frenesi  
masturbates while watching the cops on CHiPs. Zoyd has to change  
venues so his craziness can be televised and the window is faked.  
Nothing is real unless it is mediated by the media, so that fake  
becomes the measure of authenticity. Hector's sense of failure  is  
all about a failure to become real and reveal his weird truth about   
the dangers of addiction  through TV to which he is pathologically  
addicted.

On a personal level I remember a point in my family when people began  
to watch TV when they ate, and having an intense feeling that we had  
been invaded and had surrendered.  Partly this was, in retrospect, an  
avoidance of pain around family issues and around  the Vietnam war.