We decided to take a short break from a world gone mad and neglect to turn on the tv. This of course meant no tv, no movies, no tivo, no Oscars, and alas…no GodFather. Our feble attempt soon became a sour reality of, “Whatdo you do when you don’t flip on the boob tube?” We cleaned, organized, swept, talked, played games, slept, and that took care of Wednesday. Now what?

By Friday my fam had eluded me and slipt into a tv coma for an hour while I was away on business. No, my business did not include catching up on the TGIF programming that unfortunately has numbed our minds to what productive things we could acutally be doing with our time.

We watched one movie on Saturday, “The Sword in the Stone” a disney classic back when they still used a pencil and paper to create the cartoon instead of the fancy smancy puters. (On a side note, it is great to see that the movies and cartoons that I enjoyed as a kid, my kids still get a kick out of watching today!)

Although I would rather not admit it, I do feel that the tv, though mezmorizing, is still a valuable item in the household today. Allow me to explain before the self righteous, never owned a television, it rots your brain, me haters pipe in and tear my house down. How many of us have had a hard day at work, school, etc? We come home and need a wee bit of mindless consumption before we hit the hay, otherwise I find it rather difficult to escape the day’s trade and catch a good night’s rest. With it’s powers of hypnotism, it can engulf you if you let it. You have to show it “Who’s the Boss” (Tony Danza) Learn to turn it off every once and a while. Before you know it, it could be training you to turn it on every chance you get, rather than you being the master and commander of your own destiny.

Are you addicted to tv? Movies? Sound? How uncomfortable is it for you to have no music or tv in the background as you work, clean, read, etc?

I was chatting with a good friend of mine who told me that it is impossible for her to work without some sound. She’s got the trusty Bose Wave Radio at her side and is often repremanded by her husband for playing it too loud for too long as she works into the wee hours of the morning. I can relate, and I don’t think I would be stretching it if I spoke for many people in this country who has the tv on, radio on, mp3 on, Ipod on as they work into the early morning hours burning all three ends of the candle.(It’s the millineum, we have to be thinking 3-dimensional. There’s no time for the 2 ended candle thing anymore)

Who know? Maybe if we worked as hard to keep the tv off as we do on, we might be able to find something else to complain about aside from all the famous actors getting rich off of our ratings…which we so gladly hand them, because we are in constant need of mindless consumption.

This has been another total waste of time in a World Gone Mad from the Bakerboy himself. You can download the podcast from Itunes.