Bombarded by obnoxious commercials !

 TV and radio commercials are more frequent and more

    offensive - truly the product of ugly souls ! - than ever before.

    Even the so called news is nothing but commercials interrupted by

    incoherent bits of news - often about the problems of vapid celebrities.

                 I believe that these relentless commercials - always

    suggesting that true happiness is just one shopping spree away- are

    as insidious as the  ideological brainwashing seen in cult movie

    " The Manchurian Candidate ".

             They tell even the poorest of the poor - who can still watch

    TV - that they should have this and have that. They are creating

    monsters of frustration.

                I seriously question the intelligence of any person

    who can listen to TV or radio for more than an hour a day - with

    the exception of NPR and  TV stations like 36 - doomed to neglect

    by philistine ignorance.

               Often I feel like the character in the Twilight Zone

    story " Walking Distance " : If only he could get back to saner

    times !

                My 80 year old mother says that TV was better when

    there were only three channels and it was all in black and white.

                Come to think of it, what's so bad about a black and

    white view of the world ?  DIVERSITY has become a modern Tower of

    Babel !

                Even the newspapers are threadbare.  And morally confused:

    A full page  ad seducing kids to smoke; on the next page an indignant

    editorial condemning  the cigarette industry.

               A just Allah is  hurling that asteroid

      toward the earth !