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Hello my fellow Politiores Troglodytes. This Blog is a collection of Posts, Poems, & Short Stories that I write on a daily basis. If you find it entertaining, informative, and controversial, then I have done my job properly. Thank goodness too, because Karma has been on my case of late. I'm supposed to bring fifty people into the fold or I'll have to give back the part of Einstein's brain I inherited. No, I'm not one of the Scientists who got a piece of his brain when he died. Karma said, "Eat this knowledge. It'll make you smarter!" The bargain I made with Karma was, if I could change fifty people into Politiores Populos, I would be rewarded with my very own Lamborghini. So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Like what you're reading, then read on. P.S. Populo is Latin for people. Politiores is Latin for educated. Troglodytes is English for troglodytes. And Einstein's brain was stolen by Thomas Stoltz Harvey after his death in 1955 and eventually divvied up into 240 pieces. If you just read that last sentence, then you have just learned something and I'm just that much closer to fulfilling my commitment to Karma!

Thursday, April 27, 2023

I Still Can't Find Anything

   This is going to give away my age but I don't care!
   I grew up during a time when reading was more important to a person than television. Of course we only had three channels and two UHF channels to watch back then. But we had access to hundreds of books through our local and school libraries.
   You never heard of UHF? That's because you needed an antenna or rabbit ears to receive the signal on your TV. That's where the PBS channels were located.
   Then came HBO, which I got immediately through a microwave signal, cable started giving us hundreds of channels, and then huge satellite receivers gave us channels from around the world which eventually turned into smaller receivers as more satellites went into space, and finally the internet came along which created its own kind of channels to watch.
   I might not be chronologically correct but you get the idea.
Timeline of the Evolution of Mass Media
Then came all the streaming services.
I have the ones you pay for
and a lot of the free ones.
I could list them all here but,
let's just say I have at least 25 of them.
Can too Much TV be bad for our Eyes? | SiOWfa16: Science in Our World:  Certainty and Controversy
 When I had five channels,
six channels,
150 channels,
or now,
that I have 500 hundred channels,
I always seem to say the same thing!
There is nothing to watch on TV!

This is,
Why I Still Love To Read To This Day
James Hauenstein
 
And

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R. Martin -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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