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Zing! I hate TV and see no reason for it to be around, but I think it's dubious they're singling out TV. They could just as well target video games, reading, j

Zing! I hate TV and see no reason for it to be around, but I think it's dubious they're singling out TV. They could just as well target video games, reading, just relaxing, or other things that aren't particularly productive. It's a little too easy for people these days to see downtime as valueless, I just hope it never gets to the point where people think you are lazy if you aren't working every waking moment of your life.

latortuga 17y ago
Singling out TV is pretty easy because, first, it consumes a significant portion of the majority of American's lives and second, because there is a lot of reliable data measuring that time. There isn't anything that takes up that much time outside of work unless you count sleeping (and god damn what I would give to cut that out of my daily schedule)
- Hexstream 17y ago
  "There isn't anything that takes up that much time outside of work unless you count sleeping (and god damn what I would give to cut that out of my daily schedule)" Actually I wonder if it would make as significant a difference as you'd expect, or even at all. Reminds me of those school research projects where I'd have 2 months to do the project, do nothing at all except worry a bit for the major portion of the time then do everything in the last 2 days and get a decent grade. I wouldn't have done better or worse if I had been given 1 week or 4 months instead.