Its been around for 60 years now, has proliferated so it is everywhere, and is the way most people spend their leisure time. And it sends one message – everything is random, cling to life as desperately as you can,  and the best you can do is to skew your odds as much as you can based on the scientific statistics. The television, with its ubiquitous screens, seems to me to represent a collective ego, which is young, petrified of death, and consumed with worry about all sorts of issues. I think living in this artificial media world on a constant basis leaves people neurotic about all sorts of possible tragedies, and in a state of denial about the inevitable facts of the life cycle and mortality, and trivializes the best way anyone has ever had to face these hard facts – a faith in a higher power, a purpose to our time here on earth, and the golden promise of a just afterlife.

I wonder if people realize that, regardless of all our technological progress, the brevity of the lifecycle and the inescapable finality of a cold winter’s tombstone is unavoidable and here to stay, an acknowledgement of which would enlighten people about how to best to spend their limited time here, instead of living, and eventually dying, in a state of denial about the hard stony facts of life. Indeed, the only valuable stage of life that the TV tells us is youth, and it is completely lost what are the advantages, and what is appropriate, at all the stages of the life cycle, including eventually dying.

I think a lot of people’s sense of history and culture are from what they have seen on the TV, thinking this mainly junk food diet is all that is important, and missing all the sources of meaning to be found in historical cultures prior to JFK and the Beatles, or in leaving the media world behind sometimes to embrace the cathedral of nature.

If these thoughts resonate with you may I suggest you check out my other newsletters.

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In song and in spirit,

Paul Kloschinsky