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I think our obsession with messaging and screen based stimulation has reached a new and absurd height. This picture below was taken in Union Square Park/ NYC.  The building is the Shake Shack – a pretty good place to get a snack believe it or not, even thought the park itself is a squirrel and rat infested box of dirt. The tables at the Shack are pretty excellent for people watching and the park is ringed by benches where you can vie with obnoxious Eurotrash tourists,  the homeless, the insane and indigent and territorial squirrels to get a seat…providing even better people watching. I like this place when i have some time to kill and the weather is good.

Anyway – my point here is that the best show on earth, “ourselves”, isn’t enough anymore – we need TV’s blaring commercial messages at us outdoors – to fully satisfy our need for stimulation…ugh, do we really?
Funny  (well not really), I was at the dentist not too long ago and as i sat down in the chair, I saw that they had installed flat screen TV’s in front of each chair, to “entertain” during treatment. I can barely handle CNN normally,  but put it in front of me while I am in the dentists chair…and I know it wont be good…. ironically it was the first time I have gotten to “hold” the remote in a real long time and i used it for one thing – to turn the damn box off.  

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Posted: March 27th, 2009 under thoughts on this & that, Uncategorized.
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