The main reason I don’t watch TV is because I believe it is
a tremendous waste of time. It is a bizarre form of entertainment that is
pleasing only because it requires almost no mental effort whatsoever. In some
instances, scans of an American brain will show that it is less active than
while watching TV than while it is asleep. This, for me, defines the lowest of
the low. Not to say that TV is the worst invention in our society, but we, as a
culture, definitely need to cool it on the amount of TV we watch.
I also
believe that TV is, as a whole, second-rate to movies. This isn’t a fundamental
attribute, but it is a definite trend that movies are better acted, better
produced, better written, and better directed than TV shows. An aspiring movie
actor or movie director will often begin on TV shows. It is below the movie
people in the hierarchy of the Hollywood industry, and if I’m going to spend a
tenth of my life watching something (which is how long the average American
watches TV), I want to watch something that an artist spent time creating and
placing thoughtful messages in rather than something a marketing director
and a comedian slapped together to sell advertisements.
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