"The reason we love to gather around the TV lies in Stone" Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Jan 2021 1:21 p.m. PST |
…Age embers "LAST year, it was Frozen. This year, it might be Eight Below. A holiday during the long, cold Michigan winter is a chance for my family to spend some quality time together. And what better way to enjoy our evenings than by watching movies on TV? Some might call this a waste of time. Anthropologist Christopher Lynn begs to differ. He believes there is a good reason why many of us like gathering around the idiot box. Far from being frivolous, it is a legacy of a behaviour that arose to help humans survive the unforgiving Stone Age world…." link
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Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 11 Jan 2021 4:09 p.m. PST |
Just the blurb quoted above reminds me of the scene in the first Terminator movie, where the camera shows two post-apocalypse boys apparently watching tv, but then it pans around and you see that the boys are actually watching a fire burning in the shell of a tv (which must have been made of metal, not meltable plastic). |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 11 Jan 2021 5:54 p.m. PST |
Courtesy of New Scientist – requires subscription |
| Tango01 | 12 Jan 2021 12:06 p.m. PST |
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 Legion 4 | 12 Jan 2021 5:29 p.m. PST |
That scene may be closer than we think based on all that is going on recently. |
| Brian Smaller | 12 Jan 2021 11:09 p.m. PST |
We got rid of the TV in our house about five or six years ago. It was liberating. I cannot emphasize how much better our life is without that horrible screen prattling away in the background non-stop. We have a lounge room oriented about people and not a piece of technology. |
| Tango01 | 13 Jan 2021 12:32 p.m. PST |
Legion… dude!… things are not THAT bad… (smile)
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| Legion 4 | 14 Jan 2021 9:26 a.m. PST |
Not yet Tango … but I'll keep you informed. 😁 |
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