I've always said that the Children's Television Workshop is deep in the pocket of Big Digit. It should be pretty obvious, what with every single "Sesame Street" episode being sponsored by a number, and their casting of a blatant arithmomaniac in a recurring role.
But now, this "educational" "television" "show" is going well beyond filling our childrens' heads with numbers, colors, and fly-in-soup anecdotes. They are going to add math, science, and engineering indoctrination to their televisual brainwashing curriculum.
What this is, as any fool can plainly see, is yet another attempt by the answerists and science-pushers to force their one-right-answer hegemony on innocent children before they're even old enough to spell "a-c-a-d-e-m-i-c f-r-e-e-d-o-m."
(Which, in a truly free school system, they could spell "a-k-y-d-u-p-i-c f-9-r-;-*-*-o-m" and be correct, but I digress!)
Well I, for one, will stop watching. This is my protest, and I urge my fellow Math Skeptics to do the same. If this doesn't work, we'll have to target their sponsors. I'm sure the Letter B would drop their sponsorship pretty quickly if we threatened a boycott. Or, I should say, an _oycott!
FREEDOM!
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." - Albert Einstein
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Friday, September 11, 1970
I Have Just "Coined" A New "Term"
As part of my on-going campaign to improve the English language one neologism at a time, I hereby am proud to introduce a new and use-ful word into the popular lexicon:
Info-tainment
The word refers to the increasing convergence of entertainment and information on the television and radio and newsreel mediums. Nowadays, unless Walter Cronkite removes his eye-glasses live on national television, we have no way of knowing if we're being presented hard-earned news or entertaining fluffery!
Now, we can use my new word -- Info-tainment -- to refer to this entertainmental/informational convergence as a singular entity.
This invention will no doubt garner me international fame and fortune and be the recipient of many lexicon awards.
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