Re: MeToo Children's Program

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

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> But I have to think that the prominence of US media on theplanet makes us 
> at least one major source of "attention pollution".

We who are information junkies and think that the world revolves around us, 
are apparently our own audience. But it is a much wider problem than simply 
a US-based domestic issue. I think the US is off-the-hook on this one.

When in Rome and staying at the Best Western Hotel Canada this Spring, 
Aljazeera provided quite a different and Muslim flavour of the CNN format 
whose own European Network seemed more like the BBC or the CBC than the 
'murican flavour and spent much effort in sensationalizing global food 
shortages and other social issues throughout my occasional 2 week exposure.

Prominently competing for airtime with other prominent sources of attention 
pollution such as "Sexy Dollar" (an Italian T&A "Benny Hill" style game 
show) and the barely mentioned Italian Presidential Election. I did see the 
President Elect as he drove through the streets but surprisingly no media, 
US or otherwise. Don't quite know what to make of that.

> Perhaps the problem is that we have learned to make devicesto saturate our 
> senses before learning the discipline not to overuse them to the point of 
> desensitization.

Yes indeed.

Sexy Dollar's dirty old men and bare-breasted young women used their own 
Talywood and unpastied sensual saturation devices in a shockingly pathetic 
but apparently more interesting manner to the Italians than all the chess 
clubs in Uzbekitstan.

Like the wastebasket, the "off" button is probably seriously underused by 
those with idle time or infatuated with media which I believe is universal 
albeit regional.

However the Amalfi Coast where little English was spoken and little TV was 
watched was considerably less polluted with contrived saturation. The sirens 
who once tempted Odysseus still call to the Fishermen of which I am one. If 
there was saturation it was in the colours of the sunsets along the "Path of 
the Gods" which commanded my full attention. Our villa was below the 
Internet Access point for Praiano, but email was briefly checked only once.

So all was not lost. But we do need to get-out more often:) And of course 
enjoy our Apple II's when indoors. TV is such a waste of time.

Bill