rant

Like alcohol and driving, it’s hard to mix cultures

(Below is blog post. It contains naive ramblings and no great conclusions—and lots of mizpellings and grammatical errors.)

Why is it hard to mix cultures?…What is a culture?

A culture is a collection of people who share certain beliefs and values and, to some degree at least, share ideas on how those values should be expressed. For example, I was raised a Catholic, but I’m not Catholic anymore. To become a Catholic, I adopted Catholic values and beliefs; indeed, to become a member of the Catholic Church I had to profess those values and beliefs in various rituals.

So why did I leave that culture, that community? (more…)

By Decaf, ago

Nearly 20 minutes of a 60 minute TV program are commercials

Photo by Dan Rockwell

Photo by Dan Rockwell

This fact boggles my mind:

Nearly 20 minutes of almost every hour of TV programming is commercials.

Put another way:

Nearly a third of my TV viewing time is commercials.

It drives me away from network and cable television programming and toward pay sites like Netflix and Amazon Prime.

It’s not that the advertisers sponsoring these programs don’t deserve the money.

The advertisers simply don’t deserve so much of my time.

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By Decaf, ago