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Life After Television

By Christopher Orlet on 4.19.12 @ 6:07AM

There is no end to the things one can do without.

This spring I gave up the Boob Tube for Lent. It turned out to be a remarkably pain-free sacrifice. Not only that, but I think my IQ may have inched up a few points.

Lent has come and gone, but I have chosen to maintain my self-imposed ban on television — in perpetuity. True, I was not much of a couch potato to begin with, being one of those rare modern curiosities, a middle-aged man who does not give a rip about sports. As a result of this endearing eccentricity, I never felt the need to subscribe to cable or dish or to plunk down $5,000 for one of those 55-inch HD plasma jobs, which made it all the more easy to walk away from the set and never look back.

Besides, with so few channels on commercial television my options were limited to old westerns, reruns of Maude or Two and a Half Men, or one of those godawful reality shows that pass for Prime Time TV these days. The wife still catches The Biggest Loser on occasion; other than that the only time the TV gets switched on is when relatives visit and insist on watching “The Game.” (And then only if “The Game” is being broadcast on a commercial channel.)

Thus far, the benefits of a TV-free existence have been substantial. Television, like the Internet, is a notorious Time Suck, so I find I have considerably more free time now, time for the Permanent Things Russell Kirk talked about (and he wasn’t talking about The Simpsons, now in its 23rd season). Time, too, for long neglected chores, for exercise, for slow-cooked meals, even gardening. I finally was able to dust off some of the classic books I have been promising myself to read, but too often slighted in favor of a Schlitz and an old episode of Gunsmoke.

THE WHOLE IDEA of giving up the idiot box still draws curious, if not hostile, reactions from family and friends, as if there were something vaguely subversive and un-American about it. I can’t imagine why. It’s not like the Politburo passed anti-TV laws. In fact, television was the regime’s most effective means for spreading its vile propaganda. I can only assume the reason is that television is considered quintessentially American, like baseball, hot dogs and apple pie. Well, I don’t much care for baseball and hot dogs either. Besides, like it or not, one cannot really give up television completely, since it blinks at us from every wall: in restaurants, doctor offices, taverns, post offices, even the lobby of the building in which I work.

If you ask me, abstaining from television is a no radical step at all, but a reactionary imperative. I consider it a very conservative act, as in, conserving my time and my cultural values. I am sympathetic to those conservatives who maintain that we are living in a New Dark Age (only this time we are the barbarians) and it is our duty to separate ourselves from the present culture of barbarism to the utmost extent possible, and perhaps by doing so conserve a few shreds of civilization, to pass on to future generations, much like Benedict of Nursia and his fellow monks did during the sacking of Rome (that is when his fellow monks weren’t trying to poison him).

Of course, television’s raunchy and largely puerile content is only its most obvious offense. The late social critic Neil Postman nailed it when he wrote that modern technologies don’t just distract us from Higher Things, they shape (distort?) who we are and change how we think, and not for the better. Television doesn’t just shrink our attention span, it teaches us to prize sham emotion, deviant stimulation and quick resolution over logical and abstract thought. Former TV critic Rod Dreher says television is by its very nature a force against tradition, against continuity, against permanence and stability. Who can argue with that?

I guess what I am trying to say is I feel somewhat called to set up my own personal Benedictine monastery as a bulwark against barbarism, and the first step is by refusing to allow television and similar degrading forms of pop culture into our home, and, instead, to fill our lives with beauty, with great books, and with things spiritual and uplifting. I can live without SportsCenter and Jersey Shore. Indeed, as St. Benedict learned, there is almost no end to the things one can live without.

About the Author

Christopher Orlet writes from St. Louis.

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.19.12 @ 7:39AM

From approximately 1990 through 1999 I probably observed less than 4 hours of popular culture as defined by T.V. I ran a business in addition to my full time job and there was little spare time.

I felt at the time it made me a lot sharper and able to see through the lies.

In 1999 I first observed a show called Seinfeld. I told my kids, "Hey you should see this show, it's funny." They responded, "That's an old show and it's no longer being shot."

In reality, though, I missed little. No partisan news, etc. I actually read the papers occasionally but only started watching TV again lately. Mostly Fox business.

In essence, it's a great experience. I didn't start out not to watch TV, but that's how it ended up.

Don't tell anyone. They'll think you're strange.

In essence, they are all brainwashed.

Occam's Tool| 4.19.12 @ 11:56AM

MST3K and Riff-Trax. Occasionally, Greatest Tank Battles (I love watching the Abrams turn the T-72 into Frosted Flakes).

Dat's about it.

JT| 4.19.12 @ 12:34PM

Watching the turrets fly off those Soviet made dinosaurs and sail through the air like flying frying pans is good for the soul.

TrueBlue | 4.19.12 @ 1:51PM

I love watching all those History shows about technology and how it advanced through the ages.

Maddox| 4.19.12 @ 7:42AM

Television is now "the opiate of the people." It consists mostly of content provided and controlled by the communist media and entertainment industry. The result of decades of indoctrination by television and perverted education have cause too many Americans to put their faith in government. We used to joke about subliminal messages in programming and ads but the leftist agenda isn't hidden at all. It is evident in almost every aspect of television if you choose to see it. The idiot box has helped create millions of useful idiots.

Appleby| 4.19.12 @ 8:11AM

I watch television. Not the commercial channels, which are unmitigated trash, but History Channel, Discovery Channel, BBC Canada, HGTV (home and garden television), EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network; the noncommercial Catholic channel from Irondale Alabama); an Italian channel (for soccer), and figure skating wherever it turns up. Oh, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, now that I am not travelling there anymore.

I had the interesting experience of reading a full page article in our local paper detailing which TeeVee programs were renewed, which were cancelled and which were "on the bubble." Of the 38 (I counted) programs mentioned, Iam proud to say I had not seen one single episode of any of those shows.

Historian| 4.19.12 @ 8:56AM

Is it because I'm old? TV has lost its appeal. There's still Turner Classic Movie but I can't keep waching re-runs of Calagari. There's no Arts on Arts and leisure. Food has silly contests (I want to see a "chopped Chef dismember a Judge) Connecticut Public TV is g-d awful. I recall when NET was worth discussing. reruns of programs I wouldn't watch the first time (Old Rock Concerts)
The only thing left is evening news to see where the local fires and murders are.

potkas7| 4.19.12 @ 8:58AM

It was during the summer of the last Presidential election that I finally had enough. I was tired of being constantly propagandized; sick of of watching two partisans carry on their 'dialog of the deaf' at maximum bombast, screaming hollow slogans at one another. Most of all I was tired of spending a thousand a year on satellite TV and being reduced to watching only the weather report and Stargate SG-1 re-runs. So I called the satellite people, told them to come get their stuff and take it away.

I wondered how long I would last? I grew up with television as my constant companion. It was always there, the background noise of everyday life. Would I miss it and have to crawl back? The answer is No. I haven't missed it a lick. I now watch fascinating and informative recorded lectures from the Teaching Company. I found I could get all of the Red Sox games on my desktop computer via MLB-TV and, with the advent of Roku, I can now beam them to the TV in the living room over WiFi. Most important of all, I've rediscovered the joy of simply spending a quiet evening reading a book. Life is so much better now that I've stopped marinating in the manufactured controversies of the moment. My new motto, 'Cut the cable and enjoy real life.'

Pecos Pete| 4.19.12 @ 9:14AM

TV turned off in 1996. Haven't missed it. Have read a LOT of books and LOTS of people don't visit me anymore because there ain't no TV for them. (Also, quit reading newspapers. Haven't missed them either.) The Internet provides all of the news I can absorb.

Maxwell| 4.19.12 @ 9:16AM

If it were not for Holmes on Homes, Formula 1, and .MIL I'd toss the TV out.

Ellen| 4.19.12 @ 9:26AM

I watch a few shows on the History Channel. That's about it. I gave up on network TV about 10 years ago, and can honestly say I don't miss it. I get my news from the internet, and most of my entertainment from books.

c. j. acworth| 4.19.12 @ 9:28AM

I also dropped the Tube about 8 years ago. Only thing I miss even a little is "Nova" on PBS.

Harry the Horrible| 4.19.12 @ 9:34AM

For the most part I gave up TV a long time ago. When I watch it, I either watch something specifically of interest to me, or socially with my wife and daughters.

Now if I could just give up this darn Internet thing...

cuban pete| 4.19.12 @ 9:37AM

The last TV program I watched with some consistency was "Taxi". 60 Minutes is a rumor. I never watched M.A.S.H., "Hill Street Blues", etc.
The only thing I watch on TV is college football and basketball and MLB with the sound turned off. I do miss the test patterns from time to time.

JT| 4.19.12 @ 9:46AM

I ditched network TV 25 years ago. Nova still has some decent stuff, but I generally watch only Football as a sport in the fall and have watched Top Gear as I love cars and the host truly despises Green cars and the whole environmental religion in particular.

Mike Hawk| 4.19.12 @ 9:58AM

I quit the one-eyed monster about 30 years ago. I am selective about what I watch now, generally major golf tournaments, special broadcasts or cable programs. Sometimes my boobtube is not turned on for 2-3 months at a time. Leaves me wide open for Masonic activities, Scouting leadership, working in the garden, animal sacrifices in the smoker or bbq pit and other hobbies. Lighting up a stogey. I'll listen to radio, but TV is something I have to conciously decide to do.

JT| 4.19.12 @ 10:09AM

"animal sacrifices in the smoker or bbq pit "

Man, fire and charring animal flesh, life is good!

Mike Hawk| 4.19.12 @ 6:50PM

Accompanied by an ancient recipe beverage of a wort from the seeds of the Hordeum plant aged and cured with help of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and flavored with the flowers of Humulus lupulus. Ahhh! A man's drink.

Doug Newman| 4.19.12 @ 9:59AM

we turned off our tv in 2002 and haven't missed it, my wife and I do crazy things like converse, play cards, and generally just do things together besides vegetating on the couch

gearjammer| 4.19.12 @ 10:32AM

Since I wan the lottery and could afford a harem I never watch it at all.

Cuffs| 4.19.12 @ 10:33AM

Can't stand TV and all those inane commercials.
I am very selective as to what I watch and
prefer to purchase and view classic movies
and read good books. Much more satisfying
than watching idiots including Barry the Tick.

Vern Crisler| 4.19.12 @ 11:40AM

Yes, that's what drove me to switch to watching DVDs -- the incessant commercials. And I'm just talking about Fox News.

With DVDs, you can choose the time and place, and limit your time to what you like, without being afflicted by commercials and reality TV.

JT| 4.19.12 @ 2:26PM

If there is a program I want to watch, I always DVR it and then blow through the commercials. I will NOT watch commercials. I do watch my DVD movie collection a lot, its like visiting old friends.

Ken| 4.19.12 @ 5:18PM

The problem is, nowadays some of the best stuff on TV are the commercials, better than the actual but putrid programming.

Robert Nowall | 4.19.12 @ 10:41AM

Who's rerunning "Maude"? There are several episodes of that I'd like to watch again...

ahem| 4.19.12 @ 10:57AM

Shook the habit in 2005 and haven't looked back.

Andrew Phillips| 4.19.12 @ 10:57AM

TV - a vacuum cleaner masquerading as an information / entertainment center.

It sits in the main room, and in some cases every room, in the house and sucks your brains out.

A great article about something that tells you absolutely nothing about anything.

Everyday on TV it's Strawberry Fields; where nothing is real and there's nothing to write home about.

Strawberry Fields maybe forever but that doesn't mean I have to go along for the ride to nowhere.

Carpenter| 4.19.12 @ 11:10AM

My wife and I returned from a quarter century of expat living in the UK, to find that we were not familiar with anything on the "telly", so we stopped watching it and received the precious gift of a few free hours every evening to concentrate on our faith, our friends and other interests. What a gift! We paid for cable for years but eventually gave that up, too. When I travel and stay in hotels, I sometimes see the faux-tension of reality programs and realize how fortunate I am to be free of the enslavement to this brain-killing rubbish.
Thanks, Mr. Orlet.

Vern Crisler| 4.19.12 @ 11:47AM

I don't think it's a good idea to go completely TV free, like medieval monks trying to escape from a world of sin, only to bring it with them into their cloisters.

Just because some abuse alcohol doesn't mean we have to become teetotalers. It's a natural reaction to overconsumption, but still an over-reaction. Same with TV.

Paul McGrath| 4.19.12 @ 12:04PM

Except for House, Hawaii Five-O, American Idol, movies on TCM, Fox News at five and six, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Everday Italian, Family Guy, the Simpsons, baseball, football and hockey, I never watch TV at all.

Jim Woodward| 4.19.12 @ 12:29PM

It goes for days not being turned on.

A little NCIS, when I remember its on. The Masters, Indy 500, some football when the playoffs start. Love my DVD player. Currently watching old Cary Grant movies.

Used to enjoy Miami Vice and comedies that made me really laugh; Night Court, Barney Miller, Taxi, Cheers and Seinfeld.

POST American| 4.19.12 @ 1:10PM

In this, the now UNDENIABLE 11th hour
of the CFR---RED China handover, takedown,
OCCUPATION, TREASON and FINAL EUGENICS OP ----for those
who are yet clueless --

CHECK OUT!

the latest article from Eustace Mullens
laying out WHO --exactly-- owns and
controls our media and Hollywood.

CHECK OUT the names and the links.

Match this up with your 'faves' among the
TAX FREE ultra-rich 'benny violent',
USURY and EUGENICS rabid eel--eats.

The cultural degradation ops and aims of the
'age-enda' will shine out like stars in hellfire.

CHECK IT OUT!

---------------------------GO!

BCD| 4.19.12 @ 1:21PM

Hey POST American - lay off the red bull man!

Dave Williams| 4.19.12 @ 3:45PM

POST's posts....random firing of neurons, and safe to ignore.

Mike Hawk| 4.19.12 @ 4:26PM

It's not the Red Bull, it's the chloroform sniffing.

Long Live Peter Green | 4.19.12 @ 1:11PM

I stopped watching network & cable tv a while ago. The tv only goes on for viewing college football, NHL hockey games, dvds of classic movies from the1930s - mid 1960s (before coarse profanity & gratuitous sex & violence ruined movies) , classic tv shows (Hawaii Five-O (the original), The Honeymooners, Emergency!, Wanted: Dead Or Alive, Leave It To Beaver, & some others) , & shorts of Laurel & Hardy. Most network & cable tv today is trash created by the left. I can totally understand why people stop watching tv today.

PCP Smoker| 4.19.12 @ 8:00PM

A grown man watching Leave it to Beaver? What a fucking loser.

BCD| 4.19.12 @ 1:18PM

I haven't watched TV for 23 years. I am truely liberated.

Nelson H.| 4.19.12 @ 9:46PM

Hurrah for you! That is alienation from the prevailing culture on an epic scale, for which you must be congratulated!

Petronius| 4.19.12 @ 1:29PM

Perusing these litanies of old favorites doth prove that what many inventions start out to be is not the end result. As I said, where once we had The Voice of Firestone we now have American Idol. But we happy few who post here have never been part of the herd. Don't give it up for good Chris. Just stay picky, (according to the herd). That is, be discerning; (that's because we cannot discriminate). There are programs worth your time.

Shin | 4.19.12 @ 1:48PM

Giving up television has a wonderful effect on one's life -- mentally, physically, spiritually.

It's all good. People complain about the quality of shows. But they don't realize how mind-numbingly unhelpful it really is until it's actually gotten rid of for awhile.

Congratulations Mr. Orlet! Keep on fighting this good fight and letting people know the benefits of cutting it off!

There's not enough good writing on this subject -- there is some, thankfully, and hopefully people will read it, but not enough! It needs to become a real movement!

Riff Raff| 4.19.12 @ 1:49PM

250 channels and nothing decent to watch. The TV technology is superb. TV programming is abysmal. (A TV writer from the 1960's once remarked at switching to the then new IBM selectric typewriter: "Imagine! A machine that can produce 5 times as much sh**!" TV produces millions of times as much... well, never mind.)

Mr. Orlet, you have a good point. I must consider this.

Tiddly| 4.19.12 @ 2:35PM

Pitched out our TV when our daughter was born, 19 years ago. She grew up with books, hobbies, and family activities. Friends marvel at her intellect and abilities. And we've been a family, not a bunch of staring zombies. The benefits of no-TV are fantastic. Dump the boob tube and see for yourself.

Seek| 4.19.12 @ 4:53PM

The comments about this article, not to mention the article itself, are quite telling. They make me realize all over again just how much cultural conservatives are out of the touch with the very Mainstream America to which they profess solidarily.

I regard someone who permanently abstains from watching all television is something of a freak, an isolated nut, frankly. Yes, there is a thing called overdoing viewing. Someone who sits in front of a TV six hours a day (or more) most likely is leading an empty life. But no TV at all? That's crazy. People who toss out their TV sets are "the 1%" of American culture. As usual, the other 99% of this country will be watching something, sometime this week.

Yeah, America!

Bob S| 4.19.12 @ 5:02PM

Solidarity (what you refer to as solidarily) is only in the vocabulary of leftists.

Person of Choler| 4.21.12 @ 2:39PM

We want to avoid the Telescreen as long as it is optional to do so.

Bob S| 4.19.12 @ 5:01PM

Just hook up your computer to your television. Then you have a big monitor, and when you feel like actually watching something, you can buy whatever subscription for cheaper than a cable bill would've been. If you like baseball and movies, just get MLB.TV and Netflix subscriptions. Then you know you'll always have something to watch.

Smaj| 4.19.12 @ 5:58PM

You couldn't pay me to watch anything on network TV. Turner Classic Movies, some shows on the Food Network, MHC, the Encore Western channel (a new discovery) and very occasionally C-SPAN.

PCP Smoker| 4.19.12 @ 7:57PM

I was nodding along until I got to this: "Former TV critic Rod Dreher says television is by its very nature a force against tradition..."
I get it. You are got conscripted into CRUNCHY CONSERVATISM. Go fuck yourself and tell that creep Dreher to fuck himself too. Asshole.

Christopher Orlet| 4.19.12 @ 11:38PM

Class act.

e track from saq| 4.19.12 @ 8:02PM

As a second screen I find Uverse as a tv product
stimulating.To simply sit and surf the web seems
strange to me.Although in years past I lived totally tv free.But than again the DVR system makes watching barable.My thinking is:if the Obamanation continues past 2012 I will cancel
all services.

PCP Smoker| 4.19.12 @ 8:07PM

I like how all the losers here claim to have dumped the boob tube and then list all the shows they watch. Hawaii-50? Leave it to Beaver? Maude? Barney Miller? Get a life you creeps.

Crassus| 4.19.12 @ 9:03PM

Other than ESPN and a few other sporting events I almost never watch any type of television these days. Of course, I still have my DVDs of The Untouchables, Naked City, Daniel Boone, Thriller, One Step Beyond, and Maverick.

Nelson H.| 4.19.12 @ 9:42PM

You are not alone, Mr. Orlet! In a spiteful fury, I ceased watching television the day before the 2008 election. I simply could not bear to see the Incubus and his minions celebrate their victory and then carry out their vile socialist program. The embargo has held up, except when I watched the S.F. Giants triumph in the 2010 postseason. (That I would not have missed for anything.) Almost all channels are annoying, inane, propagandistic, vulgar and/or common. I consider the television screen the equivalent of a great big sewer pipe which, when turned on, dumps reeking raw material into my living room. Final point: what was the worst invention of the 20th century, television or the atomic bomb? I would argue television. Only a couple of hundred thousand were killed by nuclear weapons in the 20th century, but television has blighted the minds of billions and ennervated the entire culture with its rot! It is a real-life zombie apocalypse!

Brad Nelson| 4.19.12 @ 11:01PM

"If you ask me, abstaining from television is a no radical step at all, but a reactionary imperative. I consider it a very conservative act, as in, conserving my time and my cultural values. I am sympathetic to those conservatives who maintain that we are living in a New Dark Age (only this time we are the barbarians) and it is our duty to separate ourselves from the present culture of barbarism to the utmost extent possible, and perhaps by doing so conserve a few shreds of civilization, to pass on to future generations, much like Benedict of Nursia and his fellow monks did during the sacking of Rome (that is when his fellow monks weren't trying to poison him)."

Wonderfully stated. I couldn't agree more. Terrific article.

albert constantine jr.| 4.19.12 @ 11:24PM

It's baseball season, so the outrageous expense for cable means I'll have the Phillies playing on four TVs at a time when the game is on and I'm working around the house (I am simultaneously watching it on the small TV next to my computer station while typing this).

But thankfully, I still have all of the Rockford Files episodes on DVD.

Now, if I was really looking to save time, I'd cut back on the amount of time I spend at this site, reading the posts and composing my own comments. But for now, when I'm here, the time is mine to waste (or at least spend as I see fit), as opposed to the time my wife, kids, job and business wish to demand and command.

POST American| 4.19.12 @ 11:47PM

EVEN putting aside the degenerate content
of most of our Tavistock CON-ceived
demoralization op 'Tell--A--Vision'--

"Understand, TV has been the greatest
weapon in the arsenal of government
EVER invented. It has ended utterly
GENUINE communication between people."
-Informed online

Having just spent a few weeks in front
of the TV at someone else's house,
and having tried to speak with them
--and getting nothing but laid on
conversations and programmed responses
-------we have to agree.

AGAIN, join us and hurl the telly and
radio both.

----------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012-----------------

albert constantine jr.| 4.20.12 @ 12:19AM

Well, welcome back to this house, POST. Let's not have the conversation so one-sided.

michael grasso| 4.20.12 @ 9:41PM

In our family giving up television is known as SIMBO.
SELF IMPOSED MEDIA BLACK OUT.

POST American| 4.21.12 @ 5:23AM

---------------------BOTTOM LINE-------------------------

TIME to hurl the telly.

ebonystone| 4.21.12 @ 10:15PM

I gave up watching TV over 30 years ago, after viewing a particularly childish evening news show. About 8 years ago I bought my first color TV, along with a video player, and now use my TV exclusively to watch dvd's from the library -- mostly old movies, and some mini-series, like "The Prisoner" and "Rumpole of the Bailey". The only time I watch programming is when I'm on vacation, and the motel offers 40 or 50 cable channels. Then I usually "surf" for an hour or two, trying to find something worth watching. Usually I fail, and go back to reading a magazine -- like "American Spectator".

grayjohn| 4.22.12 @ 11:09AM

I gave up tv and movies. I gave up on Hollywood.
I don't miss it at all because it had ceased to be entertaining. Insulting yes. Entertaining? NO.

POST American| 4.23.12 @ 3:30AM

In this, the undeniable 11th hour
of the capstone takedown of
American and western civ. and
economy ---again, a picture to
take in ---from 1952, the year
America was saving --some--
of little Korea from the
unfolding Globalist instigated
MAO-ist Halocaust:

-----------------'IKIRU'------------------

Download it some night and find your
soul again ---for the first time.

"When your time comes
----WHAT WILL YOU DO?"
-IKIRU

'IKIRU' ----which means 'to live' in Japanese.

Siwash| 4.23.12 @ 1:34PM

I have been TV-free since 1992 for the very same reasons the author notes above.

The only things I've felt I missed out on are watching the major sports events. So that is the price I pay; I DO get my life back, though!

Toady| 4.23.12 @ 2:00PM

Watch a half hour of news every night. None of the entertainment. When I want a movie, I take out a free DVD from the library.

There's just more interesting things to do than watch TV. I have nothing against it - I'd rather doing other stuff.

Mike D| 4.23.12 @ 7:14PM

I gave away my television almost two years ago and have never looked back. I've become a reader again, a voracious one at that. The house is much cleaner and the dog gets more attention than ever. My health is improved. Life is better without television.

Linus| 4.24.12 @ 8:41AM

I have been off the tube for about six months for all the reasons you mentioned. One final motivation is that it could be a loud protest against the evils of our secular world, especially in the media. My protest extends to movies as well. Hit them in the pocket book and perhaps things will improve.

Norman| 4.26.12 @ 9:07PM

Bottomline for me: I didn't like myself when I was in front of the tube, searching frantically for something interesting and failing almost all of the time.

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