T and/or V

Do you watch too much television?
Or perhaps you don't own a television?
Neither is probably good.

There was a time some might have argued that I have met may have
watched too much. (I never missed an episode of The Equalizer). But now I think I don't watch enough.
If you don't watch any, then my plea is to watch some.
It's visual, it's auditory and it's designed, redesigned and
reinvented by talented creatives. And it's delivered in bite sized
pieces that are (all too) short.
The hour you may have been charged in the 80s is now a potentially
intense 42 minutes.
But you have to choose well for the right result.

The paradox of art is that to really enjoy it you have to see it for
its separate parts.
That's why people who walk around art galleries talk about
brushstrokes, framing, perspective, essentially the devices that are
the substructure of the work. Should they be even talking about that?
Is that not the reverse of "the point"?
It is the last thing that the artist wants you to do.
A moviemaker doesn't want to see his film spliced to clips on youtube.
A writer doesn't see his whole work spliced into two-line quotes.
A magician doesn't want your comments on his sleight of hand.
The (w)holistic end result is the whole point.

But that's not the way I enjoy things. And I'm not alone.
Ask a woman if she likes a magic trick, and she may say "Yes, that's
nice. I like to be bamboozled".
A man may respond to the same experience with "No that's really
annoying". (A real man may find out why).
They've had the same experience but one party needs to understand the
process. Don't get me wrong, I'm more than glad the other people
exist.
The same people may enjoy a flower. And one may offer "Yes, isn't
God's work wonderful?". Another may say "Yes, the beauty of the
mathematical coding of the daffodil DNA is a remarkable example of
life, the universe and everything".
My preference is the latter - to find a whole new dimensional
substructure which you can abstractly develop into a new useful
personal superstructure.

Maybe you have a rich seam of endlessly new stimuli entering your life
on an hourly basis. No?
Well, if you don't, watch a little TV.
Add a glass of wine if it helps.
It's legal.
It uses all your senses (apart from the largely redundant "smell").
And it can add another layer of intensity or challenge to everything
you think you know.