Oxajil said:
Stellaria_graminea said:
I have never liked to watch TV. Mostly a gut feeling, repelling it, for some reason. Has always been like that, even as a child. I can, however, watch movies and other things when and if I want to, things I choose by myself.
Talking about television shows are, thus, horribly boring. I'm used to not to show my boredom.
Gotta say I loved watching TV as a child, the cartoons were fun [...] enjoyed the movies that were on TV back then. But, as I grew older I went from watching TV to sitting behind the computer! Cartoons nowadays don't seem as awesome as then, but that might just be my age!
It is often talked about in terms of "growing out of" these things, and I think that's the truth, only it has not to do with age, but with insight.
I'd guess (it seems so in my own case, at least) that there's simply not much to hook you anymore, because, in having learned something, they can no longer seem significant - apart perhaps from (this being something that can last) some occasional humor value, if it's not too shallow in nature.
The interesting thing is how distractions - many movies, TV shows, etc., along with video games (through which I spent a whole lot of my childhood and teens) - while when "matching" one's inner level and so being attractive, do this often without providing anything to grow on. They give a shiny but empty presentation - a dream that matches one's present inner contents.
Then one finds things elsewhere and grows, and the dreams presented eventually appear "trite, conventional, imbecilic" (as don Juan noted about the dreams of farm-animal-humans).
So also for TV news (and much of MSM news in general) - having had a taste of some real research and information, it's "grown out of".
As always, people cannot relate to having grown out of something unless they've done it themselves.
I also think there's two kinds of people who waste all their time on distractions - those who have seen nothing, and those who have seen something and become embittered and lose all sense of a greater meaning because they don't have enough of a big picture. I was among the latter as I gamed away, years ago... Then I started to go crazy - something in me rebelled - and in the midst of growing neuroticism, I finally found all this, and learning became a process (not wholly finished) of self-curing.
Sometimes buffering is not about shutting out the painful or uncomfortable - it just occurs because there's no idea of anything better. Among the people who sink into themselves, I think those who do because they're very bitter and disillusioned have the greatest hope for a turnaround if they find something of genuine meaning - if they are capable of apprehending that meaning.
So if anyone here knows a (at present) bitter, misanthropic nihilist - who still has some manner of higher ideal that they don't find in the world, causing bitterness - they might be much more open than most to discussing and considering the "weird" and unexpected, and they might also have something interesting to say.
Though it all depends on their nature and how messed up they've managed to become.
