Like television, cellphones, and other supposedly wonderful breakthroughs in communication over the years, what started out as great gets quickly turned into crap.
Someone is always willing to find shortcuts and ways to use the medium for ill gotten gain.
My only thing is, don’t “marry” any of them. I haven’t watch any TV in nigh on a year now, and I don’t miss it. If it wasn’t for my wife watching the cooking and home shows, I’s just cut the wire.
I hear about all the outrageous crap that comes out over CNN, MSNBC, etc...even some of the shows on FOX, and I’m glad I didn’t waste the time watching the one-eyed monster. I’d rather be whittling.
I have been without a television for at least eight years. I don’t miss it. Instead of that time waster, I have more time for working out or reading. Heavy reading. The guide for the perplexed, by Maimonides.
We didn’t have a TV for years into our marriage until my in-laws gave us their *old* one.
And so there it sits. I dust it once in a while and on rare occasion turn it on. like Trumps State of the Union address last year which was awesome to watch.
Sometimes I pop in a DVD to watch.
Otherwise, I’m just too busy to be bothered wasting time on the plug in drug.