people in high places are in on the killtaker

have you ever heard the phrase "write what you know"? i've heard it--multiple times. if i had to create some kind of graph or chart showing not only how often i've heard that phrase but also the ways i've heard that phrase i think that graph or chart would identify tv as the way i most often hear "write what you know." not that the tv tells me that, but whatever is on the tv keeps telling me. obviously. you know that; you've seen tv. usually i'm watching some show about people with writer's block and someone is like "write what you know." but maybe we're wrong. maybe it's the tv telling me to "write what [i] know." not only that, maybe tv is telling me all sorts of stuff--what to like, what to do with my freetime (watch tv), why my relationships don't work out, why i can't sleep, what the future should be like, why i hate everything and why my life is a mess. it's not the people creating tv telling me this but tv. the actual tv. not the actual, physical tv in my living room always staring at me but something like the idea of tv. a tv-oversoul. oversoul? what's that a reference to? i can't remember and i'm worried it's something stupid. but i'm leaving it in. i'm leaving everything in. maybe i should start another paragraph. nobody likes long paragraphs.

new paragraph. but i still want to talk about tv as some kind of organism. i know little to no microbiology but i did used to date a microbiologist, so maybe this analogy won't be terrible. it'll be pretty bad, but i'm leaving it in.

here it goes:

what if tv is a virus? not like a virus but an actual virus. like it's this living thing that we don't see but it's always there. it's there an it uses us for it's own survival. like how viruses can mimic their hosts' dna, actually encoding itself into the host then using the host to reproduce itself. tv gets inside all of us tricking us into thinking that our original ideas for tv--what tv means, how important it is, ideas for tv shows, new technology for enhanced tv viewing, new ways to advertise on tv--are ours when really tv encodes itself inside of us and simply uses us to reproduce itself in more advanced and dangerous ways. when i say dangerous i'm not talking about tv violence spawning real-life violence. that's bullshit. i'm talking about a tv takeover. a takeover that none of will even recognize. it's possible it has already happened. tv uses us to continually re-create itself. but i don't think it's too bad yet. it seems like, while we definitely have to give up on liberal humanism, we can still be involved in determining what it means to be human or posthuman or some kind of cybernetic adaptation of humans and tv. or maybe we need new definitions of what it means to be human, one that recognizes tv as a defining characteristic shaping (and possibly controlling) human awareness and/or existence. just remember that you can no longer, in good conscience, call you thoughts your own.

for becky: this blog is about how i hate liberal humanism.
for everyone: i don't hate tv.