The Life that Isn't
Now let me make sure I understand this properly.
You pay over $1500 a year to have a cord strung between your house and a huge advertising company. Which connects to a huge, expensive electronic display that you paid hundreds of dollars for.
You spend all your free time passively staring at this device while it beams messages at you.
Messages which you admittedly know are designed to control your behavior, written by people whose entire careers are devoted to mastering how to subconsciously influence you for the benefit of huge mega-corporations.
And you have organized your entire living space around this device, so that is the focus of your attention and the center of your life.
You have become so fully brainwashed by this device that you are compelled to devote more of your precious free time sharing the messages it delivers on social media sites, using yet another expensive electronic device you purchased.
Social media sites which are beaming tons more advertiser messages at you, all carefully custom tailored specifically to appeal to you, because you’ve given them all kinds of personal information that you somehow still think is private.
The messages from your television and computer are also one of the only topics of conversation you feel comfortable talking about with other people. You choose to create bonds of friendship with people who have been exposed to the same messages, and exert social pressure to conform on those who have not.
And you think I’m crazy for not having a television?!?