tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post4966436272369515930..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Questions No One Is Asking Dept.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-61786947853184255042020-05-14T10:51:44.752-04:002020-05-14T10:51:44.752-04:00There's also a fascination, a need for enterta...There's also a fascination, a need for entertainment and/or spectacle. And when there is a demand there will be a supply.<br /><br />My (immigrant) wife is captivated by this show, "90 Day Fiancee", which in the principle of it mimics how she and I got together. In it there's this one guy who has been "dating" a woman he never met for SEVEN YEARS. He's flown to Ukraine multiple times to find her, sinking over $100K into the dating agency (maybe more, I don't recall). Each new episode my wife breathlessly updates me on this. (Apparently he's finally met her and proposed... with a cubic zirconia ring. He's 60-something, she's late 20's. Her answer is a mystery.)<br /><br />Now, I've already told her I DON'T CARE. But she's fascinated by this.<br /><br />Like I said, there's a need for spectacle and, in this case, to see the antics / behaviors of people in a bad light. Perhaps if only to look at one's own life by comparison.NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-51472148207172736102020-05-14T10:32:49.929-04:002020-05-14T10:32:49.929-04:00I'm the oddball in my household. My husband lo...I'm the oddball in my household. My husband loves TV, enjoys the talk shows (I know, I know). I can, and have, gone over a week at a time without turning on media of any kind.<br /><br />I don't bother with watching the shows, because I have no idea who they are. Listening to random people blathering about current events isn't that interesting.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-19990235809330923382020-05-13T19:05:04.480-04:002020-05-13T19:05:04.480-04:00"If it were possible to suppress the services..."If it were possible to suppress the services those satellites provide to celebrities and would-be celebrities, would the celebrities matter to anyone? Would we have even a concept of celebrity?"<br /><br />We will always have those who crave and chase fame, whether for the fame itself, or the idea that it will lead to fortune. Or power. Or both.NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-51406333131562008602020-05-13T17:12:06.272-04:002020-05-13T17:12:06.272-04:00I don't have a TV, I have the internet of cour...I don't have a TV, I have the internet of course, don't have much interests in celebrities unless they are more than that, e.g. Linda Ronstadt, Jessye Norman......<br />Otherwise it's like visual Muzak, in the background to be tuned out and ignored.ligneushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906867668009351290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-24403429332829411112020-05-13T14:45:23.441-04:002020-05-13T14:45:23.441-04:00Being a techno-Luddite has its advantages. No TV i...Being a techno-Luddite has its advantages. No TV in the house. No radio. No newspapers. No smart phone. I wouldn't recognize most of the celebrities if they walked into my living room.<br /><br />JWMJWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05564732483476859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-281836824062687282020-05-13T13:46:40.564-04:002020-05-13T13:46:40.564-04:00Well, I remember back when I was a wee sprout, you...Well, I remember back when I was a wee sprout, you had three channels on TV and they all shut down at midnight. Other than that, the closest thing to a celebrity status was getting your picture on the cover of a Wheaties box and that was reserved for great athletes.<br /><br />I wouldn't miss them at all. <br /><br />I reckon media Giants would have to start laying off people in drives...learn to code.Mike Guentherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13760305520055214986noreply@blogger.com