User:TV Rots Your Brain
From CaseyPedia
A realist and an adherent to the principles of frugality and simple living, the theory that TV Rots Your Brain (sometimes abbreviated as TVRYB or TV on Exurban Nation) has on the pathology of Casey Serin is that (among other things inherently wrong with Casey) Serin has watched far too much television in his young life and gets too many of his ideas about how a successful person should live from the idiot box.
To TV, many of the sources of Casey's current angst come from television, especially televison commercials. Such things would include:
-Casey Serin's adoption and abuse of too many credit cards and a woefully overpriced cell phone/PDA thingy
-Casey Serin's attendance at and indebtedness to his real estate investing gurus's seminars including Nouveau Riche University...Serin admits his original introduction to the world of real estate investing came from watching a late-night television commercial (link to Kiyosaki YouTube video)
-Casey Serin's impulsive purchases of all things that ultimately prove useless and worthless: a Blue Ball, IKEA filing cabinets, the V-Dubs, wheatgrass shots at Jamba Juice, modified semi-vegan meals from Macaroni Grill and Chipotle, a CD/DVD burner, a | Jack LaLanne brand Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer...most of these are relentlessly plugged in infomercials or TV ads.
-Casey Serin's ill-advised multiple mortgages from companies of questionable value like Countrywide which air ubiquitous television commercials in their never-ending quest for the questionable revenue to be made from ignorant sub-prime borrowers
-Casey Serin's indebtedness to the predatory lender CashCall, which also hawks 'easy' credit at usurious rates on television
-Casey Serin's fawning over and unquestioning sycophant-like admiration and adherance to the dubious teachings of do-as-I-say-and-not-necessarily-as-I-do gurus (whose teachings may cite one source of wealth while their own wealth is based on their teaching materials or their name-brand status) who have appeared on television such as Robert Kiyosaki, Suze Orman, and Donald Trump
-Casey Serin's obsession with sweet media coverage, especially if it involves a television camera and/or a chance to meet a guru with television access (Sacramento TV news report, Robert Kiyosaki YouTube video, Suze Orman appearance)
-Casey Serin's prioritization of the promotion of his blog, search engine optimization (SEO), Web 2.0 marketing, Google AdSense revenue, page views, the creation of Internet info-products (such as eBooks) and other online/Internet marketing trivialities over seeking gainful employment whether it's contract work or a looser W-2 job, paying off any and all debt he and his wife Galina Serin have incurred, the respect and financial and familial obligations owed to the Suprun family and the Serin familiy, especially to his sister in law Yulia Suprun, his brother Steve Serin, and his mother Anna Serin, not to mention his utter disregard for his marital obligations and the feelings and misgivings of his wife Galina Serin, whom he has disrespected and putatively abandoned by his sudden one-way flight to Australia to direct massive focused action on blogging and other trivial pursuits that produce negligible income
TV thinks Casey Serin is a living cartoon character, the worst kind of cross between the Roald Dahl characters Veruca Salt and Mike TeeVee and regards Serin's exploits as fodder for free entertainment better than what is currently offered on the boob tube which says more about the dismal state of television writing and the intelligence and wit of TV's fellow Haterz™ at Exurban Nation and its many sister sites than about Casey Serin, his alleged high IQ score or his alleged talent for entertainment...at best TV sees Serin as a muse for the many snarky Haterz™ riffs on the celebutard wannabe, but then potentially so are many other people (such as authentic celebutard Paris Hilton) and situations (such as exurbanization, sub-prime mortgage lending, the bursting of the real-estate price bubble in many US markets, and the state of the US entertainment industry). TV thanks the Fliptard for bringing Haterz™ worldwide together and is certain that their grown-up discussions, debates, humor and camaraderie will last well beyond his popularity/fame, the existence of his marriage and the existence of his precious baby, his blog.
When not hanging out at Exurban Nation with her fellow Haterz™, TV spends her time with her two cats on her family's farm in a beautiful rural area of the United States (the historic Shenandoah Valley) reading copious quantities of nonfiction books, surfing the Internet for interesting intelligent and witty sites to read, watching classic films and the rare good TV show and indulging her passion for her many collections including her books and her movie and TV memorabilia.
