Monochromeness
Yesterday I ran across an article that both encouraged and distressed me. Seems that there are 28K people in the English Dominion that still watch monochrome television. [Link]
The encouraging part is that number of people who are so underwhelmed by what is shown on television that they cling to what is now not even thought of as a antiquated technological capability.
The distressing component is a bit more complicated. The way they measure this is not by conducting a survey. The English, with their long tradition of tyranny, license the use of televisions. I am told this type of oversight is common in Europe. So much for greater attention to human freedoms!
What is also distressing is that one cannot infer a negative from this. That is, the number of people who do not have access to a television because they reject the corporate mind parasite is unknown. The mental health of the populace is not of interest; the gathering of tax – by whatever name – revenue is. So this gives us no insight into how many people lack television because they choose to and those who lack the money to indulge a habit.
Of course, this does not address the relative quality of television content in England compared to that in the Yankee republic. Certainly it must in several ways be superior in that it lacks all manner of Yankee athletic games that have the intellectual content of leeches. Although from what I have seen of not-Amerikan football I cannot advance that that is any better. And at least these games have the quality of being less artificial than the bulk of Amerikan programming including infoporn, ‘news’, and ‘reality’ streams.
Of course, the Scots have another advantage here. They have a shorter logistics distance to whisky which is sovereign in making even television programming endurable.
