I cancelled my TV licence two years ago and I'm now entering my third year of not paying (and not watching the crapaganda). It brings me great joy knowing that I've deprived the BBC of funds and used the savings elsewhere. There's a huge army of us who've switched off and 'cancelled' TV.
I got a postal reminder from TV Licensing recently - which I'm ignoring. I refuse to make a renewed statement to declare that I'm not watching TV, every two years. I've told them once and that's final. They try to maintain their authoritarian presence to create anxiety and fear - which I happily reject.
My 'TV' is also a DVD player and spare computer screen, which I use occasionally (without its TV aerial cable) so the 'authorities' can go to hell.
For 99% plus of the time that humanity has lived on this planet we have been in small groups for whom anonymity is virtually unknown. That is where our humanity evolved its base structures, our fundamental personalities. Now we mostly live in vast anonymous conglomerations where, ironically, loneliness is endemic. Corporations, and the alienated mentality that sustains them, moment to moment, are an exact effect of this enormous growth in our populations and ways of living. When we change ourselves to adjust to this, one by one, sovereign individual by sovereign individual - corporations, and all that they stand for and promulgate - will simply fall away. They are, literally, dead non-existent entities, who parasitically thrive only through the misplaced attention of our alienated modern selves. I believe the evidence is all around us that the age of alienation is coming to an end. A truly great awakening.
Extraordinary photo above, Martin. So much movement and life and unresolved yearning. Ethereal colors in browns and greens, of the godly and unexplored. Themes of where and why, and even when, way off in the distance. A light and shadow dance in which I’d love to participate if you will but squander one of its progenies so I might be that one person on a bridge.
The exact date and time of my own permanent relinquishment of the thrills and horrors of television is as easy to remember as the date of the loss of JFK Jr’s dad. I said Goodbye, Farewell and Amen to not only the best series in television’s sorry history but to the ugly box itself following the final episode of MASH.
For eight years after I didn’t own a television, content with my guitar and songwriting activities and yer odd screenplay {one to garner a national award}. When the flat ones came out, I got one for my assortment of useful movies that I’d collected back when they were seventy-five bucks each. Over these years I’ve replaced the VHS with whatever the most current term might be, but to this day I don’t have a cable or antenna entrance into my house because I had surely sat in on the best the medium would ever have to offer.
I cancelled my TV licence two years ago and I'm now entering my third year of not paying (and not watching the crapaganda). It brings me great joy knowing that I've deprived the BBC of funds and used the savings elsewhere. There's a huge army of us who've switched off and 'cancelled' TV.
I got a postal reminder from TV Licensing recently - which I'm ignoring. I refuse to make a renewed statement to declare that I'm not watching TV, every two years. I've told them once and that's final. They try to maintain their authoritarian presence to create anxiety and fear - which I happily reject.
My 'TV' is also a DVD player and spare computer screen, which I use occasionally (without its TV aerial cable) so the 'authorities' can go to hell.
More power to you!!! Kudos for explaining this process!!! Let's see how The Visit goes?!!!
For 99% plus of the time that humanity has lived on this planet we have been in small groups for whom anonymity is virtually unknown. That is where our humanity evolved its base structures, our fundamental personalities. Now we mostly live in vast anonymous conglomerations where, ironically, loneliness is endemic. Corporations, and the alienated mentality that sustains them, moment to moment, are an exact effect of this enormous growth in our populations and ways of living. When we change ourselves to adjust to this, one by one, sovereign individual by sovereign individual - corporations, and all that they stand for and promulgate - will simply fall away. They are, literally, dead non-existent entities, who parasitically thrive only through the misplaced attention of our alienated modern selves. I believe the evidence is all around us that the age of alienation is coming to an end. A truly great awakening.
TV license?! How do they get away with that? Good on you saying, “No!”
“ …uses the cover of legislation (not the same as law) to manipulate people into accepting these inversions of truth and morality. It is not godly.”
Consent coerced should be criminal and is certainly immoral.
Junk-mail belongs in the bin — Tesco says, eat more 🥦 😂
Extraordinary photo above, Martin. So much movement and life and unresolved yearning. Ethereal colors in browns and greens, of the godly and unexplored. Themes of where and why, and even when, way off in the distance. A light and shadow dance in which I’d love to participate if you will but squander one of its progenies so I might be that one person on a bridge.
The exact date and time of my own permanent relinquishment of the thrills and horrors of television is as easy to remember as the date of the loss of JFK Jr’s dad. I said Goodbye, Farewell and Amen to not only the best series in television’s sorry history but to the ugly box itself following the final episode of MASH.
For eight years after I didn’t own a television, content with my guitar and songwriting activities and yer odd screenplay {one to garner a national award}. When the flat ones came out, I got one for my assortment of useful movies that I’d collected back when they were seventy-five bucks each. Over these years I’ve replaced the VHS with whatever the most current term might be, but to this day I don’t have a cable or antenna entrance into my house because I had surely sat in on the best the medium would ever have to offer.
Spot on.