The Television Years

I haven't had a Television or its accompanying licence since 2005. That's a Fat Seven Years. I catch glimpses here and there of what I might be missing in the homes of family and what friends I have left after the 'Tsunami of Bipolar' swept over me. I'm not missing much! I am triggered by visual stimulus and stick me in a room with 24 hr non stop news on a 'slow' news day or a 'good' news day for the television networks and I will have become so stimulated  by nightfall that I would either need medicating or a punchbag. So I do what they tell you not to do in the CBT self help books, I avoid things.I avoid things that trigger me.
Watching BBC Wales in the Nineteen Nineties was enough to make you ill! The Nineties I refer to as the lost decade.(What do you mean Wuss? We got Devolved Power to the Bay in 1997)
I think back, and I just have a Metallic taste in the mouth.
I think of Oasis and Ladi Di's funeral.
I was hungover on that Sunday and watched the news coverage. Nobody could have foreseen the outpouring of grief but the subjects were not grieving for Ladi Di. They were grieving for themselves and who they had lost previously. Princess Diana's death was a convenient vehicle in which to do this.
I have swopped my television introspection for a Facebook habit which is costing me a good few hours every day but I will not become addicted to that. I will become bored eventually and move on to something else but for the moment, it will suffice. All these technological delights are a displacement activity. They take our mind off death and dying until these media bring death and dying into our subconscious. Now the Noughties were a bad decade for this with the abbreviated dates of destiny, turned into some texter's shorthand. We witnessed 9/11 and 7/7. We the 'collective unconscious' watched this on our different media and then in the words of the old propaganda posters "We kept calm and we carried on". At what cost?
Baroness Warsi claims that Islamophobia has passed 'The Dinner Table Test'.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/20/lady-warsi-islamophobia-muslims-prejudice

Has Pornography I wonder? Is anything taboo around the Dinner Tables of the world? We see enough death but we never talk about it! Unless it is a curt, "well at least she didn't suffer" or "oh it's a blessing". We are relieved at Funerals because we know that it isn't us lying in the coffin at the front of the church, but we do know that one day it will be, so what do we do? Go home and Fuck! 
Sex and Death. There's not much difference these days!
What's this got to do with Shark Fishing in Wales though?