How pathetic is your real life when watching movies is actually preferable to leaving the house or just generally participating in society?
I feel like you could basically replace heroin, alcohol, or gambling, with television and film, and still ruin your life through lack of progress.
>>66602778
David Foster Wallace wrote much about your topic, OP. And I think you're right: electronics are a form of drug and we don't appreciate this fully.
>>66602815
>le suicide man
The real question is, why the fuck do you care?
Are you a social worker on some kind of humanitarian mission?
>not knowing /tv/'s already full of drunks
>>66602778
>generally participating in society
Which, aside from working, is still watching movies, alcohol, gambling and such, but with other people
>>66602815
What book anon?
>>66602828
>Buying the DFW suicide
Hilary tasked the CIA with suiciding David Foster Wallace on behalf of her media company cronies. His ideas are bad for business.
>>66602778
TELEVISION
THE DRUG OF THE NATION
BREEDING IGNORANCE
AND FEEDING RADIATION
>>66602878
I believe it.
>>66602778
>tfw /v/, all dei erre dei
>tfw forgetting to eat, sleep, & fap
>>66602872
Infinite Jest to start but it's a theme he discusses often, especially in interviews
>http://radioopensource.org/david-foster-wallace-chris-lydon/
>>66602778
>generally participating in society
Yesssss, good gentile, participaaaate, interact with people and pay your taxessss
>>66602778
meh, everything is meaningless in the end anyway, nothing you do matters in the grand scheme of things
>>66602778
I don't know.
How pathetic is your real life when shitposting on a Chilean mining forum and not even partaking in Chilean mining discussion is actually preferable to leaving the house or just generally participating in society?
>>66602907
Passive activities are worse imo. At least a reward mechanism is in place (no matter how meagre).
>>66602951
*unzips trilby*
is tv a drug ?
>>66603338
>it tv a drug?
Only if you are the 80% of viewers easily influenced by propaganda.
>trump
>>66603431
in your own opinion whats the most heavily filled with propaganda film in western media.
modern.
>>66603480
American Sniper
Ameritards unironically gave a bravo performance to a plastic baby doll just because 'Murrica.
>>66602778
>ruin your life through lack of progress
In this scenario, does progress mean acquisition of wealth?
![698[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/zTbB9lT.png "698[1].png")
>>66603562
>alternatively
it was entertaining as fuck
![96c[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/nD065X7.png "96c[1].png")
>>66602880
opiate of the masses, brah
good thing i havent owned a tv for over 2 years now and i dont watch movies
![untitled-article-1428003962-body-image-1428005240[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/p61gqwI.jpg "untitled-article-1428003962-body-image-1428005240[1].jpg")
>>66603650
(You)
What the hell does participating in society mean and why does david wallace want me to spend all of my time doing it?
>>66603686
I dunno, Infinite Jest 2 hundred pages 2 long 4 me. Anyway, he killed himself. He obviously doesn't know anything more than any old bum.
>>66603431
> trump
you're a little slow I see
>>66603677
I don't get it ?
>>66603748
You do get it ?
>>66603562
I guessed you would pick that I have not seen it for that very reason.
This is a good watch for any1 in the thread who's interested in propaganda.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2010/12/2010121681345363793.html
idont agree with it all but its interesting to listen.
explains why cape shit has so much military stuff.
>>66603766
no really I don't ?
>>66603841
How should I know ?
I've done that for years. I'd rather friends to be honest.
>>66602880
good song
sperg that made his first friend a couple of days ago detected
ever heard of a hobby? no one spends his entire day hanging out with other people
>>66604128
whats the best form of mindless entertainment ?
the more i've watched tv the better i've become in life.
>>66604156
video games and tv i suppose
film isn't mindless entertainment at all if you know how to watch it and study it
>>66602878
>hillary is evil
>obama is evil
>trump is a stand up guy
>>66602843
I've decided to give alcohol up for a month because I think I'm borderline. I never feel good in my body, constantly lazy
>>66604156
"Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired, go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here, here's American Gladiators, watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it, watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America—you are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do as we tell you!"
>>66605041
anyone have the bill hicks rant about hulk Hogan and nuclear holocaust.
top grade keks
