As one says, "Thanks for your share, Gerald. And keep coming back. It
works."
S
> Stephen:
>
> There is a media detox palace protocol:
>
> 1. saturation: we all group and talk and talk and talk about our media
> fixations 24/7 for 3 days straight no rest only toilet breaks result:
> nausea
>
> 2. isolation: we're each placed in our own cell whose shelves are only lined
> with the works of various Lang-po and Vis-po and Oui-po practitioners no
> interaction with nother living soul for another 3 dys result: full
> realization of the fixation's futility
>
> 3. re-education: sent back into the group's fold to lern key phrases like:
> "Hey, how's about that weather?!"...and "lately, I've been reaing Bernstein
> again, how's about you?" result: victims (and we're all victims here) are
> shown there's a world beyond the media
>
> 4. reintegration: family and friends and colleagues are invited back to take
> us back to the real world. They are (of course) well-advised not to bring
> up anything they saw/heard on the Factor, Hannity & Colmes, Scarborough
> Country, Drudge... and especially Duh Savage Nashun. Recidivision... you
> bet.
>
> Good Luck.
> 3-strikes-&-I'm-out Gerald S.
>
>> We can make news by starting a 12-step anonymous group for adrenalin
>> driven
>> news media addicts. "I do get such a buzz off Matt Drudge news reports -
>> goes good with coffee, etc. - and I always feel hung over & ugly when it's
>> done. I will appreciate anyone's support in getting out from under Drudge
>> and back to reality." Etc.
>> Poets unite against news and death. Let it rip.
>>
>> Stephen V
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Yes, can't pull away, must pull away. Must watch,
>>> mustn't watch. And all the while acknowledgement (must be paid): given
>>> the
>>> constraints... the constant force for concision on newscasts to boil down
>>> a
>>> flood of information into a "meaningful" trickle seems to (woefully) cut
>>> down on free speech. Yet, we still watch, hopeful critters we is!
>>>
>>> Chrs,
>>> G.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks Gerald. There are times I'd like to go the route of our friend's
>>>> 80 year old mother, who says that watching the news just isn't worth
>>>> it, but I (& obviously you) can't pull away from it, I suspect.
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>> On 24-Feb-05, at 8:37 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No, Doug... seems as though you've watched
>>>>> just enough to be able to break through to the
>>>>> other side! And upon your return you've brought
>>>>> back a telling snap.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gerald S.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been watching too much TV news....
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> what questions pool
>>>>>> behind that screen
>>>>>> in those depths
>>>>>>
>>>>>> what answers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a kind of cloud
>>>>>> of words
>>>>>> that slip/slide
>>>>>> shift their shape
>>>>>> so airily drop
>>>>>> let a kind of
>>>>>> fog of intention
>>>>>> precipitate darkening
>>>>>>
>>>>>> nobody knows
>>>>>> & nobody sees
>>>>>>
>>>>>> nobody knows
>>>>>> what's free
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wednesday 23.02.05
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>>>> Department of English
>>>>>> University of Alberta
>>>>>> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>>>>>> (780) 436 3320
>>>>>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reserved books. Reserved land. Reserved flight.
>>>>>> And still property is theft.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Phyllis Webb
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>> Department of English
>>>> University of Alberta
>>>> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>>>> (780) 436 3320
>>>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>>>>
>>>> care to be more
>>>> precise about whatever
>>>> it is you are
>>>> saying, I said
>>>>
>>>> Bill Manhire
>>>>
>>
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