Television is such an addictive piece of shit. I sometimes find myself yelling at it like a madman.... screaming "NO I WILL NOT BUY THAT PRODUCT!" then some ads use irrelevant kinds of reverse psychology and i'm like "that makes me want to boycot your shit!"

cable television... people pay money to watch it AND the commercials. paying money to watch advertisements! TV companies (local and network) are paid money to show their ads in addition to the money we pay them. There's so many ads on tv that WE should be getting paid for watching them, not the other way around. Advertisements are a way to help make services free for people to use which may include other drawbacks like censoring/filtering, but the ads get dropped once you decide to pay for full-access service... sadly it doesn't work that way with cable.

and that's how you know you've lost, as a species. paying for someone else to tell you what to do, where to go, what to eat, etc.

I don't have digital satellite dvr dishnetwork whatever they are, dunno if the same ads pop up on there.