I've been ensnared by cable video yah-yah. Sometimes it seems like they're trying to program me. My dad told me that television was mass hypnosis. But, he'd watch Lawrence Welk every Sunday. That was snappy. I preferred The Ed Sullivan show and later on The Carol Burnett Show and Laugh In and Sonny&Cher.. and the Somthers Brothers. They were just fun no sermons. Television has been a big part of my life. Is that hypnosis? There's all kinds of mind control. The bully at school, who gets you to give him your lunch money. Is practicing aggressive advertisement. I used counter intelligence to find out who my bully was afraid of. His dad. A few strategically placed joints at my bully's house and he was grounded. The threat of telling his dad that he was smoking pot was enough to keep my bully off my back. Random observation on life abound in my world view. Trust no one and try not to get hurt. Bernadette Staza was a neighborhood girl friend. She snuck me into her house to spy on her parents swingers parties. It was hilarious .. The parties started formally with a dinner and some wine and music. Then, it moved on to dancing and necking and stripping and sex. Bernadetts parents and their friends were lumpy middle age swingers. Bernadett did not feel inhibited by social mores and willing offered sex. I had no trouble with that. Her parents did. Mr. Staza hollered at us, while trying to make us ignore the orgy he had just begun. Our sex act had been spotted by one of his guest, who thought it was cute. I was forbidden to see Bernadette again. That curfew was impossible to enforce in the Staza swinging house. We'd watch Batman in her room, while the swinging party music played downstairs .. In hind sight, I'm amazed I didn't get Bernadette pregnant. We were teenagers and had no idea about contraception. The Batman TV theme music still arouses me... ?Did Batman make us horny? Many right wing Christian activist believe that the erodetion of our morals comes from Television .. All I see on cable are cop shows. I'm afraid that freethinking is a product of a commercialized society. Without a strong centralized authority people will pursue their fantasies at whatever cost. That is the free market. How many Reverends have been caught with their hand in the donations and their pants down? Sounds like a sermon.. I liked my parochial education, but my secular education was wicked. ~ "Sex is natural and good. You are all feeling the needs of young healthy people, abstanance is the healthiest choice. There is the high risk of vinerial disease and unwanted pregnancies. If you need counseling, their is a Planed Parenthood clinic outside the school on Cambridge Street next to the library." The clinic gave out free condoms and there were horny girls there .. I spent a lot of time in the library .. reading.. Hmmm. |