When you never really had the chance to have bits and pieces of your life filmed due to your family never owning a tape recorder, it's really astonishing when you return to a pile of about twenty five or thirty VHS tapes such as mine that were all used to record some of my favorite moments on television. It's a pretty vogue argument by now that television holds a negative placement in most childrens' lives, but I will still defend it up and down as a piece of memory-making beauty that doesn't kill the minds of kids like it's so accused of doing. In my mind, television is no worse than music in many ways. Especially when you consider the existence of severely polarized "uber mainstream" content, the stuff that's made for the "mass mind." Nonetheless, going back on an old stack of VHS tapes is like watching your interests and life unfold in a nonphysical representation. Instead of seeing yourself, you see your interests manifest as yourself and unlock memories that were all but lost to the depths.
I don't think TV is all that bad...
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