Termyn8or
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I am not talking about someone fibbing about themselves. I am talking about the ubiquitous desire people have to watch, read or hear stories of other people's lives, whether they be factual or fiction.
What brings this on rather than an ambition or some kind of goal.
There was a time with no radio, no TV, newspapers weren't daily, and there wasn't a book in the house that everyone hadn't already read.
You might want to put down your beverage.
People used to have things happen to them, they could write memoirs, or they might go out and make something happen to them. In the case of a family they might learn or invent games. Once the work is done everybody needs some fun.
To cap the thought I am trying to express, which is not proving to be easy, how many books have you read about people reading books ? You know what I mean, it is rare to find these things. Same with movies, although I admit there are exceptions. In any type of media there are exceptions, but the story line is a bit hard to work. One notable exception is Last Action Hero mitt Aanold. It was a movie about a movie, sorta. You'll find exceptions all over the place but they are not all that common. Like radio shows about radio shows. They do exist but there are lot more radio shows, than radio shows about radio shows. (feeling a bit dizzy, are you ?)
Even though exceptions exist, if you are reading a book, the story is rarely about reading books. That would not be interesting because you are actually living it right then. You have no need to live vicariously through some author's mind. So it would most likely bore you.
What is this need for heroes and villians. I can understand the allure of a damsel in distress, in fact I'd like to have one :-) And yes I do enjoy pictures of bondaged up babes, and stories of that subject. That is my sicko side though, on the regular side I would rather read about people very different than me. I think most people are the same. Most not all, and I could be wrong, and there are exceptions.
HAHA, just thunk this up. There is no exceptions to the fact that there are always exceptions.
I would guess in a primitive society people would know what is going on with each other. Small communities and all that. When the motion picture era started, you might go to the cinema on Friday, perhaps not even every week. Now some people rent three movies a day. It's like an addiction.
This is not exactly keeping up with local current affairs. But is it possibly that innate desire that has been misdirected ?
For me, I prefer to hear from real people, like this, rather than what is put out for mass consumption.
Before the party yesterday, she says there is a movie she really wants me to see, but this came out of something we were discussing at my house. Some people, also friends of mine were coming over so they had to go, but I was pretty much automatically invited.
So she wants to play this movie, I told her I am all against it. I'll watch it, fine, but copy it or something so I can watch it late at night or something. Play a movie at a party ? I wouldn't want to wreck it that way. Real life was better than anything the screen could ever render.
And people wonder why I don't have cable. Sheesh.
Anyone out there like me, who just isn't interested in every story on the planet ? Who would rather live than to watch or read ? How many of us are left ?
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