Comments on: Do you let your environment program you any way it wants?

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 04:06:21 +0000

That’s why watching TV all day long is so dangerous; it completely screws your reference points, to the point that people are not watching TV as much as they are looking at reality through it.

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 02:40:43 +0000

Young Alrenous:
“What? Sitcoms don’t exist as a warning to others?” Why watch people horribly embarrass themselves except to learn to not do that yourself?

On the other hand, A: I’ve bantered in real life, it’s hardly impossible and B: and it’s pretty great actually. Trains quick thinking and erodes hubris.

By: T. Greer

T. Greer — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:37:32 +0000

An example in point.

By: Barnabas

Barnabas — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:44:50 +0000

I’m always surprised that people with an aversion to being exposed to an image of a bare breast will expose themselves to all manner of corrosive ideas in media with almost no conscious critical filter to protect them. The most egregious example would be all the good Americans sitting down every evening to watch stories of sexual torture and murder on Law and Order SVU or Criminal Minds but there are more subtle and possibly more harmful ideas than those.

By: Toddy Cat

Toddy Cat — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 14:03:22 +0000

“subsequent decades were incredibly violent compared to the present.”

Very true. Like a lot of Scott Adams’ observations, there’s an element of truth to it. but it’s not really always true…

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:09:19 +0000

It’s a true and old message from many philosophies and religions:

Phillipians 4:8

…whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy–meditate on these things. (NKJV)

By: Faze

Faze — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:15:27 +0000

To me, this seems abundantly true. I, too, avoid angry, ugly, violent art. On the other hand, 60s music was mostly love songs, even before “All you Need is Love”, and the 60s and subsequent decades were incredibly violent compared to the present. This rise of rap and violent and super-angry pop music correlates with the decline of violent crime. This puzzles me.