Show Notes Moe Factz with Adam Curry for September 5th 2020, Episode number 48 "Shootist" Description Adam and Moe go deep on the third rail of topics Executive Producers: Sir Dwayne Melancon Sir Cole Calistra Noah from Phoenix David Keyes Kris Malmi Anonymous Sir Jesse Cruz Adam Choi Martin Ohlsen Louise Wakefield Associate Executive Producers: Thomas Kelly-Tait KR Joseph DiVerniero David Roll Kurtis Collins Drake Biscardi Sarah Gardner Timothy Pierce Anonymous Andrew J Giannettino Erik Höchel Harvey Smith Cassidy Eastwood Garlene Copeland Kenneth Barnhouse lindsey heitman Colin Howard TinyEmpire.com david drake Lauren's Witty Knitts Eric Tolbert William Taylor Kathleen Backous Mireya Susan John Taylor Ed Siemens Episode 48 Club Members Rudolph Duff Ellen King Dorothy Schrodt ShowNotes The Zen TV Experiment '' Ted's Tidbits Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:00 If you watch television, you should take a look at this post. It's a repost of an article that first appeared in Adbusters Magazine on the effects of television on individuals and society. It proposes four experiments to attempt at home. I did this, and I recommend you do it to. 1) Watch TV for 10 minutes and count the technical events.What is a technical event? We've all seen TV cameras in banks and jewelry stores. A stationary video camera simply recording what's in front of it is what I will call ''pure TV.'' Anything other than pure TV is a technical event: the camera zooms up, that's a technical event; you are watching someone's profile talking and suddenly you are switched to another person responding, that's a technical event; a car is driving down the road and you also hear music playing, that's a technical event. Simply count the number of times there is a cut, zoom, superimposition, voice-over, appearance of words on the screen, fade in/out, etc. For this test, I watched the first 10 minutes of this episode of my namesake show. In that 10 minutes I counted 223 technical events, and then I realized I didn't count any audio effects! 2) Watch any TV show for 15 minutes without turning on the sound.For this, I simply muted the volume on the same show and watched the remainder. 3) Watch any news program for 15 minutes without turning on the sound.It took a while for me to find a recording of an actual news program online (I needed 15 contiguous minutes, and the news sites only offer clips) but I finally found this on Hulu. 4) Watch television for one half hour without turning it on.I must admit that I haven't done this yet. I want to do the experiment, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to waste a half hour sitting in front of a turned off television. Well, the point is that television is messing with your mind. All the technical events that occur in a normal TV show make for a very disjointed set of scenes that we have trained our brains to assemble into a narrative. Television inhibits your ability to think, but it does not lead to freedom of mind, relaxation or renewal. It leads to a more exhausted mind. You may have time out from prior obsessive thought patterns, but that's as far as television goes. The mind is never empty, the mind is filled. What's worse, it is filled with someone else's obsessive thoughts and images. Watching the TV without the sound makes it more difficult to connect with the story and therefore easier to observe all the technical events occur