Quit watching TV in 1997. Wait until 20 years have elapsed since you sat glued to that screen.

I cannot watch TV at all any longer. Sometimes when I travel or house sit for someone I'll turn on the TV. I'm actually shocked by it, by how vapid and tawdry and insulting it is, especially the advertising. I'll flip through the literally hundreds of channels, perhaps settling on an old or new movie, but I often have a very hard time paying attention, can't follow it and don't really know what's going on. I'm not really watching it.

And the absurdity and gall of television is that they don't even attempt to lie about what they're doing to you. What you watch are television programs. They call these TV programs television programming. It's right there in front of you and nobody sees it. It's freaking insane!

You're right. People who watch TV all have that common world that they can talk about and waste their precious minds delving into. It's not an accident. This is a total immersion brainwashing technique. Television says, "Hey, look over here," while the insidious stuff we should be paying attention to goes on behind the curtains.

Sometimes I feel like the guy in the movie, They Live who puts on the sunglasses and can then see the aliens and their agenda all around him. It's scary.