Wish I had $6k to buy a tv

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Exactly. It's made for entertainment. Entertainment is escapism. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif , and I'm just as much a victim of it as anyone. Victim probably isn't the right word, since it is by my own choice/weakness that I choose to indulge.
Most of a persons disposable income is put towards entertainment products and devices. We work to earn money to distract ourselves from the passionless life we created by spending it all working. It's a cycle of nonsense that ends up ******* the passion out of most people and it leaks out through absurd quasi personally productive crap like a car audio hobby. We take our distraction and make it our own to feel more in control of it and empowered by it.

So yes, it's "just a tv", but by making it normal to spend a large portion of your disposable income on a dominant piece of distractionary entertainment, its deepening the rut of the middle class. Spend your life working so you can buy crap you don't need that simultaneously ends up ******* up your free time with BS that does little to nothing to further your satisfaction with life.

But yeah, don't consider my point of view, feel free to write me off as a kook. But I think you see what I'm talking about whether you like it or not.

You remind me of that guy that does those Visine commericals....for red eyes, blah blah blah. Really nonsense what your tellin me....and could careless otherwise. There's tons more stuff to one's avail than just entertainment, TV in this case, in this US of A. I happen to have 2 kids and work 2 f/t jobs in order to support my family. Don't forget to mention that car audio is not a necessity in one's life, and isn't required. Boy, I must sound like your mother by now....why do you need such a big spkr in your car?? Why is it so loud and why do you like it loud?! We buy these things because we want them...not because it's not needed and can save our money. Retail is the largest market consumers buy....wheather its soap for the bathroom or a new computer desk. Look at cellphones: another example, which you failed to bring up, esp the music we can play from them and low and behold.....now there's even GPS built into them. BUT...for the most part of cell phones could lead into many directions depending upon the user. Wheather your stranded on a highway someplace with a flat tire callin up your buddy or wife to come rescue you or txt messaging your freinds during your break hour at work. All these electronics and gadgets we have today are very useful. Just imagine if Bill Gates hadn't built the computer back then. It literally changed our lives.

You insist on a TV sucks up life out of a person. I disagree, again. Sorry to burst your bubble, but to me watching my favorite programs on tv after a 12hr shift at work and to relax on the couch....now that's chillin'. IF a person chooses to live life on TV alone and nowhere to go in his/her life, then yes I'd agree with you...aka a couch potato. However, I have many responsibilies than just keepin the cable bill paid.

I think you need to visit a forum that invloves a world with no tv, car audio, no electronics because what you typed above....you seem rather disturbed and lonely.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

You barely read what I wrote if that is your response (and who could blame you with the short attention span necessary for absorbing hours of pointless entertainment) and I won't engage you in a psuedo debate on something that you don't care to think about, but I'll throw my two cents back at you for the hell of it.

Working a 12 hr day only to be so tired that you sit and watch TV until you fall asleep sounds unsatisfying to me. Like I said, I'm not above this crap, I do it too. After a long day of work sometimes the most appealing thing is to, as you said, just 'chill'. But I see the flaw in the lifestyle. I work twice as hard with twice as much stress to afford things that are completely unnecessary like a premium car audio setup or a widescreen monitor.

In the end, our time is our most valuable possession. I can use that time to earn money to amass material things (and yes, these things are entertaining and useful to an extent of course), or I can use that time to live a more free life. Perhaps what I want out of life is simply different than what you want, and in that event you will never see the same 'big picture' that I do because our goals are different.

Being so grounded that your feet are one with the streets and the dirt, being so self aware that your every flaw is radiated with pride, being so alert that your eyes are light itself, being so open that strangers talk to you with more honesty than they talk to themselves.

These are the things that will make me smile on my death bed. Living this life will be one I was glad I led.

Chances are, I won't feel the same passion for my computer or my television or my subwoofer.

I'm not a religious man, and perhaps it is from that belief that the seeds of my urgency to live such a life has been birthed.

I suppose you won't read this post either, but with this mentality as my backdrop, it would be hypocritical not to respond. If, by my previous post, you gleaned "disturbed and lonely", I feel sympathy for you, because you are already too far gone to ever understand things not only within me, but within yourself.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

In retrospect, I think I can sum up my last posts with one sentence:

The art of deep thought is lost to the age of entertainment.

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm done here.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

That's what I thought. Go back to your nonsense and quietly da mn what you no longer have the patience to bother understanding.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

Oh by the way I actually had a cameo on the Family Guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfkss4ynyk8

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

family guy blows

they should've just left the first 3 seasons alone

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

Buzz Killington FOREVER

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

i would be fine with a 13inch black and white tv personally. but will be quite happy walking around with 6-15 grand more in my pocket than someone who had to have 'the best'. i plan on getting a 32inch lcd tv as the monitor for my next computer (mac mini probably).

 

[bballrrt06 10+ year member]

sony sxrd > all television technology today (exception of lcd). LcOS is the way to go if you don't need a tv that 4" thick

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

That's what I thought. Go back to your nonsense and quietly da mn what you no longer have the patience to bother understanding.

No, I got better things to do than to argue with a 23 yr old online.

 

[1loudsuv 10+ year member]

ive spent close to 15,000 grand in my ht setup and i dont regret it one bit //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif and i am not no millionaire. i am usually always home so it gets lots of use.

to each their own.

let me add and ive spent about $1,800 on hd-dvds alone in the past 3 months since i bought the player //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif