So I was reading that 95.9 percent of American households have televisions… 📺

I guess when I sent back my Neilsen TV survey showing that I watched no television in the past week I was a bit of an odd ball – I don’t even own a television. And to think that I don’t even have internet at home so no streaming video, although I do download YouTube videos using that youtube-dl script and some extra scripts I wrote myself to automate the download of lists of videos I want to watch on the exercise bike.

I don’t like television because I think it’s primarily about promoting state propaganda and fear by the public. It glamorizes violence rather than promoting thoughtful discussion. Even NPR lately has gotten a lot into state propaganda so I listen to that less and less too. Instead of living a life of fear, I prefer to observe nature and read books.

I am a bit conflicted about the use of social media to read news, because some of that is pretty rotten too but at least I can block the hate and violence filled content I dislike. The same can be said about my YouTube watching but at least with my scripts downloading the videos at the library I don’t have to watch the ads and I can choose to watch channels that educate me – put together by real off grid folk, real farmers stepping through the manure and real trappers and hunters cutting up real animals. The stuff I watch is reality, and I’m getting exercise as I only watch YouTube when I’m on the exercise bike.