In previous posts I usually brag about not being a TV person.
This is very true but….It wasn’t always this way.
I am not proud to admit it but I was practically born and raised in front of a Television set. I remember coming home from grammar school when I was a kid. In those days my parents worked until very late, my mom wouldn’t get home until 10pm sometimes. My brother’s were teenagers at the time and would not come home until very late themselves.
I stayed home a lot back then. I could sneak out but if my folks called the house and I didn’t pick up I was in for it. So i hung out in front of my TV, binged on junkfood and soda while I watched every single cartoon and sitcom from 3:30 to 9:00 p.m.
He-Man, G.I.Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, Charles in Charge, The Cosby Show (I’m showing my age) R-rated cable movies… I would just hang out and watch everything, without any discrimination.
I even remember sometimes staying up late at night to watch reruns of shows like the Honeymooners, the Twilight Zone and Star Trek.
Needless to stay i spent countless hours in front of the boob tube, but as I grew up this declined. In my teenage years I totally abandoned the set. By then I had a lot more freedom to leave the house and come home a bit later then usual (thanks to my bros for setting the precedent.)
Though I have not completely forsaken TV. I still actively sought out shows like Seinfeld, The Sopranos, Rome etc. my viewing declined dramatically as I grew up.
Nowadays I seem to have lost total interest in all things T.V. I simply shrug when someone says I am missing out on the latest show…I don’t know why this happened. Maybe so much exposure, so early in my life, made me grow an aversion to TV the way your favorite food as a kid that you eat everyday disgusts you as an adult. Or maybe I just became disenchanted as a boy when the images on TV did not match those of reality. Maybe discovering fiction by authors like James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, Garcia Marquez mixed with all the philosophy I was reading as I grew up just drew me away. Nothing on TV could match the imagination and imagery in those books. There could be a thousand reasons.
Oddly enough I never thought about any of them until I started this project…
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