tube and tubal

[John Bailey]

This is a good point. There's a very strong stigma about TV watching
as a passive, non-productive activity. The couch potato is certainly
not a fertile rhizome. But I don't know if P wholly subscribes to this
view... the Tube itself is so pervasive, and sloth isn't necessarily a
bad thing. When its co-opted by the State and various systems of
power, on the other hand...

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> 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. ???
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> 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.
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> 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.
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