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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (6285)	3/14/2001 11:30:33 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 59480

I agree totally. TV was making major inroads into society as I was growing up. (The first TV in a private house, so I was told, was located in our community.) By the time I was 10 all my friends families had TV. Not us. My parents never let a TV into the house. We were a reading family, not a TV family. About once a month as a special treat I was allowed to go over to a friend's house to watch TV. But even then it was pretty boring. I like to think having no TV growing up made a difference. When I went out on my own, I didn't even buy or own a TV until I was nearly 30, and then only for watching sports and news. We didn't let our kids watch much TV (not that you can where we live -- we're too far out of town for cable, we're so far from cities that we only get two American and two Canadian channels and the American ones only when the sun isn't interfering with reception). I wish we had had the courage to dispense with it totally. Except then I wouldn't get to watch Curling, which along with some football is about the only thing I watch any more.