About the TV

By the way, my relatives bought the TV first in our overpopulated communal apartment on a Sivtsevo hostility. It was a long time ago, in 1959, I was eight years old. The screen at the TV was large at that time, no lenses were required. The case is from a real polished tree, weight - 28 kilograms, on the bottom is launched by inclined golden beams: the “ banner ” is a real product belonging to the category of things officially called “prolonged goods”. These goods really did not break, and if they broke, they were subject to repair. In my current dacha, the seventh decade is buzzing the refrigerator "ZIL".

In the afternoon on a television product they didn’t give anything, and in the evening the neighbors came, decorously seated with a half -ring behind a round dining table, a lamp under an orange lampshade with brushes went out. In screen flashes, the neighboring faces seemed strangers. We watched everything in a row, including a children's program. In the mysterious darkness, the Soviet good border guards caught hooky -eated saboteurs. After some particularly terrible spy film the next day, I began to rush with a black gun around the apartment and stutter slightly. Black and white football players flickered on the screen. The teams descended on the gray lawn were dressed in a contrasting form - otherwise they could not be distinguished. The warning commentator before the meeting explained what color the T -shirts really were.

At the festive concert of the uncle in military uniforms, with some fright, they danced like undermined, the aunt in a ballet pack unconvincingly depicted a dying swan, a cheerful duet straveled ditty, the meaning of which was obscure to me:

Herbal system,
How good you are!
In the field of herbs and flowers,
And in the barns not shisha!

The meaning was incomprehensible, but still it was a magical world, possible only in the first days of creation. The first clumsy cars, the first fragile planes, and the first films with inhumanly agile men ... were the same magic ...

In that television era, advertising was not transmitted, because every product was sold out without any reminder. The role of advertising was played by news; The announcers were as unpleasant as today.

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What scientists will invent, bad people will reach everything. How I rejoiced in childhood to the TV! How much poetry was enclosed in a bluish shy of the screen! How I adored Aunt Valya Leontyev, who was hanging out with a shustrik and mamlik, how I loved the wonderful cartoons, which were then painted by real artists! But when I got offspring, poetry has long since disappeared, boring and lying people settled in its place, which I had not dealt with in childhood. Having seen enough to the stupid of Telik, my young daughter came to the conclusion that before the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia there was no sausage. The son of my friends could not believe my parents that there were cinemas in America. Playing with her son in an interview, my girlfriend, pointing to plush toys, asked him: "What can you say about your bears?" Karapuz answered importantly: “Well, what can you tell you? We have a good team, increased obligations. ”

In general, I threw the TV in the trash. He shows only ugly news and series, and series is the same as interrupted sexual intercourse. I will not advise anyone. I don’t have a TV, but others have it ... Having got rid of the TV, I deprived myself of most of the interlocutors living in a huge country.

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In the mid -nineties, I was brought to the village Buryatia. People did not have money there then, but they did not lose heart. “It’s bad for you in the city, you have to buy everything. And we have meat and milk - all our own. Do you know why our teeth are so white? Because we eat a lot of garlic. ” In general, happy people. There was really excess of meat and milk there: cows walked around the village, wandered into a public toilet people who were not visited by people, lay there, fleeing from the burning steppe sun.

But human dreams of cultural life still have not gone anywhere. Some managed to fulfill the dream. “My Samsung on four legs and with horns,” the villager told me a pleased with himself that he had made a successful deal: he sold the cow, and bought a TV with Vidima for the proceeds. “Now all the neighbors come to me - even the paint on the floor was peeled.” -"What do you see?" - “How what? “The rich also cry.” And there are 244 episodes, enough until winter. Did you look at myself? " Having received a negative answer, he looked at me from top to bottom, although it was lower. And I did not buy notebooks and books to the kids: "There is one pampering."

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In life, some television persons are even more unpleasant than on the screen. They invited me to Ren-TV to tell about geisha-for the film, which they then boiled. I will blow out and went. Anya asked me - Kolomenskaya miles with arrogant knees. "Have these your geishas intervened in politics?" “No, they didn’t intervene.” - "And lovers gave them diamonds?" “No, they didn’t give it, because there were no diamonds in Japan.” Then she jumped up from indignation from the chair: “Are the Japanese live so boring? You probably have not fully studied our subject! " In response to this, I asked why in their studio so dirty. The voice said a wicked operator: “Do not worry, our light is so set that the dirt is not visible on the screen.” - "Isn't it disgusting yourself?" -"Nope."

Having received his share of negative emotions from a boring story about geisha, my partner is strictly warned: “Only more obscurantism, I ask you!” He talked about the history of the Japanese imperial house. As a result, his academic speech was redrawn so that it turned out: these same emperors are aliens from space.

At the same time, the beautiful magazine “Domestic Notes” was made by a special nominee dedicated to the mass refusal of contemporaries from the scientific picture of the world. The circulation is 600 copies. And Ren-TV spectators have millions. Obscerely knows the answers to all questions. And science does not know. Living with such a picture of the world in the soul is very uncomfortable: science does not promise immortality, does not promise miracles. And a person without a miracle is boring to live. The current viewer lies on the couch and requires more and more flickering, convulsions and convulsions from the TV. “Domestic notes” ceased to exist, and Ren-TV feels great.

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What television channels did not come to me to the cottage to me! Invariably removed against the backdrop of a cheeky horseradish, similar to a tropical plant. Only the upper part of the body fell into the frame - my country pants had a lot. But in the "picture" I looked quite tolerable. The apple color removed from the desired angle unobtrusively reminded of Sakura.

In television light, it all depends on the skill of the operator. And, of course, from the ignorance of the good viewer, which is included in the rules of this game.

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A huge television factory. Crowded; Take off day and night. Plexiglass palaces, painted faces, unthinkable dresses; Eyes filled with inanimate light. Near the television finished there are shabby workshops of stopped factories, in which they trade in Chinese pins traveling around the seams.

Before entering the factory, an indirect beggar sits on the rags spread out on the asphalt. The decent dressed unpleasant young people who had just finished shooting threw a beggar into a plastic cup hryvnia. The beggar sprayed with saliva, cried out that they were greedy. Then the most unpleasant said: “I don't like it? Then give back. " And she launched the hryvnia in his direction. Young people laughed and left, leaving behind a restrained smell of blush. They did not raise the dime. And the beggar remained to sit on her rags. I gave her a bill. She looked at me intently. She mumbled in satisfaction: "right now Isho is nothing, it was worse in the war." I wonder what role the decent dressed young people acted in?

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In his energetic essay against heretics, Joseph Volotsky calls them, in particular, “Snakes of the Dark Heads” and “Felnopers” (just like that, in one word). To him before him, to our television people accusing the world of a policy of double standards, swearing boring borrowed words: “disinfectors”, “falsifiers”, “pedophiles”, “transgender” ... where they did not finish the seminarians.

Joseph Volotsky belonged to the "snakes", that is, dragons, with hatred. But I even feel sorry for them. After all, if there are many heads, it always hurts. That is why they are so angry. Well, it is necessary to understand.

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On TV, a natural man looks unnatural. Therefore, they make a makeup - as a deceased. And television people - with plastic operations, the muscles of the face are motionless. So who really looks like a painted mummy.

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Here's what is amazing to me: there are more prohibitions on the image of love scenes on TV than to show bloody murders. And there are more corpses there than nudes. Does this mean that murder is a sin less serious than the passionate hugs of lovers? Climbing to the Ostankino tower, I asked her this question many times. In response, she threatened me with a fist.

Alexander Meshcheryakov