lenina no longer watches TV

Posted on July 4, 2008 by lenina
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Yes, a heading that says it all. I think I’ve blogged last week about my big TV (42″ rear projection Toshiba) no longer working properly. Well, up until a week or so ago I still managed to switch it on occasionally. My TV habits were to watch the news after work and to then leave it on and see what else was on (I didn’t have Sky or anything, just Freeview).

However, it now no longer works at all. Of course, I’ve had a number of things breaking down over the last weeks: washing machine, car, and this is just naturally the next thing.

It pleases me to say though that I don’t really miss watching TV. When it’s not there, it’s not there. I think I’ve become quite stoic about things generally (= a sign of maturity), by that I don’t mean that I’m indifferent, but that I follow logic and reason, and I am calm about whatever happens - “Stoic apatheia is rather the maintenance of equanimity in the face of life’s highs and lows - getting carried away by neither”.

Since I’ve been without the TV, I’ve also become happier (I think). I.e. no longer polluted by the shit it feeds me, allowing my mind to rest and do stuff by itself rather than being constantly noise-polluted. So I’m just going to be without a TV for a while.

I think I’ll probably get it back (have it repaired, or buy a new one) come autumn/winter. Though I could quite easily go without one (I’ve done it before - while studying in Cologne, I didn’t have a TV for about 5 years or so).

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3 Responses to “lenina no longer watches TV”

  1. automatthias, on July 5th, 2008 at 11:59 pm Said:

    Hey, welcome to the club of TV non-watchers!

    By the way, I actually thought of buying a TV set because I’ve got a lot of DVDs I want to watch - mainly lectures and talks on various topics. Watching them on a big screen is much better than watching on the computer. The main problem is that don’t really have space fora big screen. I keep a projector in mind as an option, though…

  2. Rational Idealist » Blog Archive » Sunny Screen, on July 6th, 2008 at 8:30 am Said:

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  3. lenina, on July 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am Said:

    it’s not that bad without a TV. I respond quite well to these kinds of changes - when something is taken away, I just accept that that’s the case!

    I really enjoy silence anyway, and hopefully the absence of TV will re-ignite some thinking or creative pastimes.

    If I get desperate, there’s always iPlayer. And I’ll try to install 4OD again too :)

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