In Your Face! - Responses

Readers sound off about The Opiate of the Masses

I don't normally respond to invitations of comment, and I've certainly no business doing so here because, as one of the visually-impaired-legally-blind (how's that for a classic politically correct hyphenation?) of this fine country of ours, I'm certainly not one of the masses.
I watch a lot of TV -- public TV, and anything that moves slowly, doesn't involve eye contact, and has one hell of a lot of verbal description. DVS [Descriptive Video Service], a creation of WGBH, is excellent, particularly at the end of a described broadcast, when the describer says, "Fade to black."
So, perhaps I'm one of the more lucky ones. They say the average person is blasted with 3,000 advertisements a day. I'm no expert, but the more I go into this progressive blindness thing, the more I know most of these affronts are visual. I've neither the inclination nor the ability to exist with ambient noise. What may provide comfort for the adequately sighted in the TV set on a low simmer exhausts me.
No backlash here, or what they call "sighted bashing" in the business of blindness...just thought I might add an interesting perspective on the subject of TV.
-- One Mean Myope