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A lot of (people) on (television) are just watching, wasting away. So at the end of the day we learned that nothing ever really changed.

• riffraff 8y ago
  My mother objected to me spending too much time reading and not enough outside. I imagine there were people in the stone age that objected to people wasting too much time near the fire and not enough fighting with sabertooth tigers.
  • heronymus 8y ago
    Exactly that! When I was living on the street, we used to call the fire "stoneage-tv". Because the human brains have such a long history of staring "into" the fire, I have the mild suspicion, that reading on e-ink displays without a backlight might make it less likely to get lost in thoughts, than when staring on a "glowing" screen. Unfortunately the only competetive screens are still rather expensive (paperlike).. ..damn, I got lost in offtopic thoughts again! ; )
    • wpietri 8y ago
      It's an interesting thought! If you had a Twitter account in your bio, I would have followed it.
  • criddell 8y ago
    I don't think a parent encouraging their kid to have a little balance in their life is necessarily a bad thing.