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Yep, wislon, a little TV watching of
Antiques Road Show turns a person into an obnoxious expert. I have one of those around who is always trying to tell me that something of mine is a real antique when I know exactly where it came from and how old it is. They always refer back to the TV programs.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 11, 2006 at 7:11 AM
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Good thoughts there....the whole story is usually quite different form the
slither we get!
posted by
Original_Influence
on January 11, 2006 at 5:11 AM
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dumbing down
certainly and we are fed chunks these days rather than whole meals. In some cases though, chunks are good (I think dogs would agree)
posted by
malcolm
on January 10, 2006 at 10:00 AM
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wislon - I can identify with everything you are saying
. . . and it doesn't change much from the flea market to the boardroom. Aside from TV and eBay creating instant experts in the field of antiques and collectables, you also have those who have learned their negotiation skills from reading a book. With all of this half baked information coagulating under the foolish premise that the customer is always right. It has been my experience that the cutomer is most times wrong. The truly educated and knowledgable client is as rare as a 4 leaf clover, simply because a layman cannot possibly have the knowledge and experience of someone who is in the field. Anyone in the buying and selling game will have days when there seems no end to the insufferable idiots who think they know it all.
posted by
gomedome
on January 10, 2006 at 8:26 AM
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I agree...
you can't flick the TV channels in this country without finding some programme based on the concept of selling off old junk. But they are still watchable as much as I hate to admit it.
Maybe the answer is that you should try and get a gig as one of their 'experts'.
posted by
blagging
on January 10, 2006 at 5:00 AM
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I think it's an ego thing
People like to think they know things. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't...
posted by
songbirdshafer
on January 10, 2006 at 3:31 AM
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hmmm, this is called "dumbing down"
I wrote a paper last week on much the same things as your post ....
posted by
Meringue
on January 10, 2006 at 2:31 AM
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Hello,
I agree with you, I have also noticed a bad impact of TV and some other mass media on the society. Unfortunately, TV regarded in my country (Poland) as the 4th power, uses this power also to manipulate the viewers (I mean the commercials etc.) and deceive them...
posted by
mira1
on January 9, 2006 at 9:24 PM
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Thanks for the enlightenement. I sometimes feel like a spurt....
TV is probably is the gateway to Perdition. (unless you dead stick a landing south of there) Most of what is wrong with our society is directly or indirectly the fault of our mass media -Movies and especially TV. The pablum people are fed never allows the watchers to mature and enter into communication with other adults as a creative self invented being. Most people align their identities with what has been created for them as seen on TV. This homogenizes thought and detunes the human experience. I know how addictive it is to sit and be spoon fed. I'm working on the next interface, forget the clicker. We should have the controls implanted and hooked up directly to our wills. Then we could skip the annoying search for the remote.
posted by
Bud-Oracle
on January 9, 2006 at 9:04 PM
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There is Truth in Your Point of View!
posted by
Dr_JPT
on January 9, 2006 at 8:17 PM
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