Decided to break from the normal routine and ramble on about my thoughts while walking back from the farm stand yesterday. There will be plenty of news to cover as we move into the autumn, so this week is a news free show. That and I recorded a podcast with Pete Quinones on the Republican debate, Trump, and the usual stuff. The show will be available tomorrow on Odysee. Pete is a good host, which is not a skill we see a lot of in the podcasting scene.
Something I did not mention in the show is just how hard it is to watch any sporting event on television these days due to the tsunami of ads. I tuned into the Notre Dame – Navy game in Dublin. It was supposed to start at 2:30 PM but it kicked off at 2:45 PM so they could bash the viewer over the head with ads and lectures. The show probably lasted three hours, which is the typical length of a football game these days, which means a football game is mostly ads and sermons.
That last part is the important bit. The ads are mostly about selling the morality of the day while briefly mentioning the product. Notice no ad for a thing ever mentions the practical features and benefits of the thing itself, but rather the social credit for having the thing. The main thrust of car ads, for example, is that you will be seen as a better person driving a certain car. Of course, many ads are really for the latest thing and not a thing you could use.
The sermons are the worst. I made it through a few series of the Notre Dame – Navy game until they put on a sermon about girls playing sports. I think it was an ad from the NCAA, but it was a lecture about how we have to force girls to play sports so they can go to college and then be all the things boys should be but are prevented from being because reasons. No one sits down to watch a game in order to get these lectures, but they are ubiquitous.
Of course, it is much more obvious to me now that I rarely watched normal television. I watch stuff on YouTube with an ad blocker. The only time I see ads is when I watch a YouTube show on my television, which does not have the ad blocker. Watching regular television with the tsunami of ads and sermons is like being dropped into North Korea. This explains why they work so hard to keep people plugged into mass media culture. Once you break free, you can never return.
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