December 3, 2022
Get rid of your TV
By Jerry Powlas
In my younger years, I had a dog named Kiki. She was my best friend. She was brave and loyal, and she raised my children, or at least, if she had been able to speak, she would have claimed to have raised them — and probably would have also claimed that they were her children, occasionally on loan to me.
She was a special dog. She weighed about 150 pounds, and when she growled she sounded like a bulldozer pushing a scoop full of rocks up a hill. She used the growl sparingly, but nobody in his right mind ignored it when she did.
I came to realize that she was smarter than many of the people I'd met, even though I couldn't give her that kind of credit publicly without offending some of those same people.
In one respect, she proved to be much smarter than most people: she didn't watch television. The images weren't remotely interesting, and the sound was of no interest at all. Over the course of fourteen years, I never caught her turning her head to see the screen, nor did she tip an ear toward the noise that came out of the box. Like any good dog, she was keenly interested in the sounds around her, except for the sounds coming from the TV.
Sometime after she passed on, hopefully going to big dog heaven, where the squirrels are slightly slower, I gave away my television and never replaced it. It has been a bit over thirty years since I've owned one. This has been a great joy.
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