Wading through the excrement of American tv is a never-ending fascination with frustration. It's bad enough that ream after ream and pile after pile of crap programming gets aired on station after station, but when decent, or even very good things get defiled by commercial after commercial, things get to be too much. A violent heart gets born. One really shouldn't allow oneself to be subjected to such crass and disgusting greed and money-grubbing without allowing oneself to feel anger...and to express anger. Brainwashing really isn't a nice thing, and being anesthesized to it is not something to be proud of. Tv of course was designed from the outset to be a brainwashing device, but it has produced certain positive outputs.
I watch tv, I confess, and the other night watching 60 Minutes I saw a returned soldier from Iraq express anger over how people in the civilian world seemed to be unaware or unconcerned about how people continued to die 'for them'. His story was a sad one but I saw a different sadness in his story. Like many others, he had been led to believe that he was fighting and risking his life for his country - which means for the people of his country, his fellow citizens. Its a very old belief, and a very old lie. He forgot that Iraq posed no threat to the US and so he couldn't be protecting his fellow citizens from threats, since there were none. Perhaps this has been true of all US wars since WW2.
And if those people have not died for their country - their fellow citizens - what have they died for?
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That's what I used to say till all these assholes who are trying to scam me popped up. Die motherfuckers, die.