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
>
>
>
>
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>> 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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