Another Movie Thread - Because We Love Them So

[--Pete]

Hi,

For traveling with my son, I got this great LG portable DVD player.
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He loves it, and makes me think of the days when I was a kid and the only thing I had to do on long car rides was "count the trucks".

I'm in a terrible mood, so this might be a post best not made.

Perhaps why we are developing generations which are incapable of thinking is that we're systematically killing all opportunities to do so.

Every waking moment has to be filled with some external stimulus so that we never have to actually think to amuse ourselves. We bombard ourselves with a constant stream of visual and audio noise because we are afraid of what our minds might do if we gave them a minute or two to actually work on their own.

I remember the long Sunday drives when I sat in the back of the old '52 Dodge coupè, windows rolled down, head on the window ledge, watching the scenery go buy and letting my mind wander over anything and everything.

--Pete