When I was traveling in Chile last year, in the lovely seaside town of Valparaiso, I walked past a colorful little house where two discarded televisions sat outside on the porch. Written on them in white paint was the message:
“¡Apaga la tele… vive tu vida!” Turn off your television… live your life!
I smiled and kept walking, feeling secure enough in myself to know I wasn’t the type of person to succumb to media addiction anyway. Thoughts like that are easier when you’re half a world away from the junk-media society of America so it was only after my return to the States that I really understood what it is to create for oneself a virtual reality.
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