R.A.P. (Rants with Ants in Pants) 4 - Television is a trash bag is a black hole

Here is a cliche. Television is bad for the mind.

I feel the television screen is the mouth of a spirit or intellect vacuum cleaner and it will suck my mental capacities and vitality into a dusty and dark paper trash bag that will ultimately become trash itself, destined to be the resting grounds of spiders and insects that cannot be identified by the layman.

Come to think of it, the ultimate trash bag must be like the black hole of all garbage. It is probably not perfectly analogous, but if the ultimate trash bag contains trash and is trash in itself... Assume the ultimate trash bag is firstly filled with all the shit in the world (which is basically the entire world) and becomes trash itself. Then, the ultimate trash bag must be able to contain itself, as it is the ultimate. So, the trash bag gets turned inside out in attempt to contain itself, such that what used to be the outside is now on the inside, but the inside which is reversed onto the outside still contains the whole world, but it will turn itself outside in again to contain itself... with infinite repeats it will create infinite gravitational pull and be a black hole.

If you have followed the argument thus far, you must be either respectably bored or admirably committed to the truth of things and you should give yourself a pat on your back for putting your rationality and patience at the risk of my blasting fuzzy logic.

Hell, be generous with yourself, give yourself a big hug!

As a congratulatory bonus from me to you, as a word of concern, I hope you would not try too hard to make sense of the above attempt at analogy, for even I, as the proposer, am too nauseated by the convoluted lack of point to seriously edit it to improve the sensibility.

Despite of the apparent abstruseness, I should, out of courteous decency, which I have, today, feign an effort to reconcile the analogy for a semblance of closure. So, well, the conclusion that can be made here is that the black hole is like an ultimate trash bag... and the television is the vacuum cleaner for the paper trash bag that sucks up mental capacities, and therefore, television is pretty much a complicated trash bag that makes people stupid.

Ho. Now, what do I mean by that? Is that a jibe at the media? Is that a jibe at our present society? Come to think of it, I do not know the physics of black holes very well at all.

Please join me in irony's amusement! In my determined senselessness, you may have arrived at some sensible conclusions for yourself. In my determined senselessness, I, too, arrived at some sensible conclusions for myself. Ho ho! The irony tickles a part of me that I hope to tuck away before it gets sucked away by tomorrow's afternoon television!

(sneak)