Turn Off Your TV! --- Beware The "Entertainment Industrial Complex"

Turn Off Your TV! --- Part I--Beware The "Entertainment Industrial Complex" Ok, not really. I mean, that is unless you want to. TV is passé anyway these days since the advent of mobile devices. We used to relegate our "zoning out" time to our living rooms and bedrooms after work or school, for maybe an hour or two. On weekends people actually went out. Of course that was before people began to see the outside world itself as an invasion of their privacy and accumulated an arsenal of phone apps to deploy as electronic defensive shields rivaling those of the Starship Enterprise. People would watch a movie, a game, Johnny, Jay, Dave, a sitcom like Fresh Prince, or for us "cognoscenti," PBS. Now we can watch anything everywhere, at work, in school, in restaurants, even in Church, and while crossing the street against the stop light in heavy traffic. We are so "connected" now we can even share videos while driving off of highway embankments and ...