July 23rd, 2015

I'm  not sure how to explain this.  Everyone should go to an island.  Its doesn't have to be an actual island.  Find a way to hide from the world.  I don't mean your neighbors or your coworkers or your families, but from the corporate media, from any TV, especially the news.  Hide from technology a bit.  It might not be as beautiful an island as this place but it will still be a great place.  The world "we" created sucks.  News reports suck. 

The people around you don't suck.  The people you bother to keep company with are great, interesting people, that easily get lost in the drama created by their televisions, and by most other media they pay attention to.

Of course this stems from being so isolated out here.  We were given TV's out here connected to AFN, or the Armed Forces Network.  I think there are 5 channels maybe.  FOX news is one of them.  There is a "movie" type channel that has "commercials" for servicemen.  The commercials are mainly about the heroic actions of soldiers in past wars, but sometimes are behavioral ads for enlisted men and women on proper conduct.

Our cafeteria, was for a month TV free.  It was soo perfectly quiet.  We all talked to each other, and could hear each other.  Then Eric, the guy "running" the shire (man camp) installed TV's on the walls in two places.  I get there at 5:30, and my breakfast mate Sherri, shortly after.  We talk for a bit, in the quiet.  Eric comes in, randomly later, and has to...HAS to turn on the tv.  He has to turn on the (FOX, CNN or whatever it is) news.  The voices of those people.  They have to hire newscasters with annoying voices to get your attention.  Even the voices from the annoying nasal sounding voices back in the 60's and 70's had to be intentionally ugly to the ears.  The voices are one thing, the content is a whole new level of annoying.  Its intended for only the most complete idiots in the idiocracy.  Shark attacks,  ISIS, AlqIda, terrorist this or terrorist that, this republican said this, or this democrat said that.  SHAKE and REPEAT, then throw in some idiotic racial disparities every other day and there you have it......THE NEWS. 

Get away....go to an island....just a place free from the world and full of nice people...who happen to be around you everday.

A good guy I met down here recently posted this video on you tube

http://youtu.be/oVig6sXS1G8