to view or not to view

I got e-mail from my sister the other day. She is new to the computer world and I read her e-mails even if they are these ‘pass on to another person or you’ll die a fiery and terrible death by unga bunga’ emails. Oh well, I’m waiting. I’m sure I will eventually die, so what the e-mails say must be true.

My sister’s e-mail was this list of things from the 50’s and maybe early 60’s. You read the remark and fill in the blank. Some were trivia from old TV shows; others were completing words in commercial jingles. I got them all right. When I scrolled down to the bottom of the letter and read the answers, sure enough, I was spot on! This made me sad. It made me sad that I remembered all this stuff from the past and I watched it on TV. I mean, what does it say about yourself? That I watched enough TV, even back then when there was no cable or satellite and there were only four stations, that I remembered it all? Think this way, I immersed my brain in TV, and not into very many books, or very many experiences and communal meetings with nature. It just made me sad to think about it. Sure, I’ll post the e-mail at the end of this write up so you can see if you were saturated to the point of depression like I was.

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