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# Zombie Me
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2535/
- Published: 2005-10-01T13:26:19.000Z
- Updated: 2005-10-01T13:26:19.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Entertainment, #wpChunk

> American television viewing climbed again last season to a record household average of eight hours, 11 minutes a day, Nielsen Media Research has found.

> The latest finding challenges perceptions that Americans are watching less TV. . . .

> \[T\]he average individual watched four hours and 32 minutes of television a day last season, the highest level in 15 years. The figures include in-home viewing levels for broadcast, cable and satellite television during all parts of the day.

> Nielsen and other industry experts attributed the upward trend to the growing number of television sets in homes and an explosion in the number of channels.

> The average US home now receives more than 100 channels of programming.

[Link](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c%5Fid=5&ObjectID=10348112&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

This is a good opportunity to re-produce my Marshall McLuhan Top 10:

10\. “The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.”

9\. “One of McLuhan's great theories was that all the university taught you to do was bullshit. And he thought that bullshit was a very high order of thought.”

8\. “Technical change alters not only habits of life, but patterns of thought and valuation.”

7\. “Any community that wants to maximize the exchange of goods has simply got to homogenize social life.”

6\. “Tradition, in a word, is the sense of the total past as now.”

5\. “I find most pop culture monstrous and sickening. I study it for my own survival.”

4\. “The problem is not that Johnny can't read, but that Johnny can't visualize distant goals.”

3\. “As a grandparent, McLuhan advised his son Eric to limit the time his young daughter spent watching TV: television, he wrote Eric, in language he permitted himself only in private, was a 'vile drug which permeates the nervous system, especially in the young.'”

2\. “To resist TV, one must acquire the antidote of related media like print.”

1\. “The present cannot be revealed to people until it has become yesterday.”