Hi dad 9-9-07

Change is natural, is that what you are trying to say? I always assumed that something was true because it was solid, did not change, like that goddam Moses of you and his stone table. I just gotta say that your tv-mania puts my 'solid' upbringing in a different perspective. 'Tv kills the imagination,' that was one of your 'eternal' truths. For god's sake: I had to sneak to our creepy neighbours to see some Miami Vice and World Wide Wrestling. Not that i really liked these shows. It's just that you had to see them to blend in socially. What irritates me most is that outrageous speech you gave me spanning from Plato's unjustified degradation of the visible to McMluhan's 'like angels we know everything', from Schelling's philosophy of art to Hegels everchanging universe wherein every detail is intimately linked with the general. 'The TV as a god's eye point of view'. What bullshit to justify your laziness. Or maybe you tried to make fun of my old habit of intellectual justifying my own weaknesses. Ok, i give you that: the speech was phenomenal. Continued on the other postcard...