Sunday, December 5, 2004

On the hopelessness of dieting Peter hits the nail with his head with his commentary on there being too much to read/watch/listen to/talk about: A 21st Century Affliction: Media Obesity. . . The problem is, I want it all. There's good stuff throughout all this, informative, compelling, thought-provoking, entertaining... [peterme.com] To which I commented:   Reminds me of Schopenhauer's statement that "Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents." Which Warren Zevon misquoted as "We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them." I say that I'm being more selective about what I read, and watch, and listen to; but the fact is I keep buying books thinking I'll make time to read them, when in reality I'm thinking that just having them on the shelf will transmit their contents to me by  osmosis. I buy DVD's so I can watch them whenever I want to; then I watched "Lawrence of Arabia" on TCM last night when the DVD's sitting on the shelf behind me. Not to mention all the new podcasts I've downloaded but will never listen to because I never get away from the computer and stereo and television and work for long enough. Media obesity? You betcha. 7:45:28 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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