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- From: llama@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: Soap operas are brain rot....anyone else agree??
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:32:08 GMT
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- phughes@huey (HUGHES) writes:
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- >What is it that compells so many people to watch soap operas?? Who really
- >gives a shit if Biff Barf is screwing Buffy Boff, but says he's screwing
- >Betty Boop, who's really dying of a brain tumor, etc. etc. ???? Do
- >people really place themselves in these idiotic fantasies? Are people's
- >lives so boring or devoid of romance that they have to ingest this
- >garbage???
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- ever hear the saying "one man's trash is another man's treasure"?
- everyone has their own form of mind candy. some forms appear to have
- more substance than others, but it's not my place to tell people what
- they should or shouldn't like.
-
- >I'm no holy roller, but aren't there healthier, more productive ways to
- >spend one's free time than watching this trash? The only lesson that soap
- >operas seem to teach is whatever whim you might have, you should fulfill:
-
- since when has the purpose of entertainment been to teach proper
- standards of behavior? and your rant here almost implies taht people
- who watch soap operas will pick up all these undesirable (uin your
- opinion) messages and act on them totally without volition. uh, right.
-
- i don't watch television; my mind candy is either reading/posting to
- the net or reading "toy" books: science fiction, mysteries, stuff like
- that. not *everything* in life has to have some lofty purpose or deep
- meaning. that would get really stressful after a while.
-
- besides, how can you decide what's healthy for other people?
-
- --
- sine | deb
- "i don't deny you're in good health but i do deny that i've found
- wealth. you look a fool but who can tell? you don't look nothin like
- yourself" -- ned's atomic dustbin
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