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SMASH IN YOUR TV AND SET YOUR MIND FREE
by Brooke Allen
I was eight when we got our first television. Although it cost a month’s take-home pay, my parents consumed it sparingly, as if it were candy.
In the eighth grade I became interested in Amateur Radio, and lost interest in TVs configured as receivers, so I took one apart and rebuilt it as a shortwave transmitter. When my friends watched the Flintstones, I talked to people all over the world.
Yet television is insidious and relentless, and by my senior year in high school, my father, mother, sister, and I would spend ...