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Every year I get more and more impressed by just how radically humane a technology TV is. If you think it saves your sanity during slumps, imagine people in nursing homes, disabled and/or old and alone people etc. TV is literally their only friend and makes life worth living.
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This also makes me mad at the sheer lack of empathy of people who rail against TV because they're fortunate enough to not need it
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I'm going to guess TV has been the deciding factor in many people's decisions to choose life over death/suicide. To a lesser extent, music and video games also are humane in this way, but TV is the blockbuster technology here.
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You could make the argument that without TV people might spend more time with their families though. Or that it's a crutch/bandaid for lonely people that allows them to pretend they aren't lonely without actually solving that problem.
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So? What’s wrong with crutches? And why shouldn’t people without good families etc have good lives? Everything is a band aid if you look at it the right way. Maybe family is just a band aid for real problem of nothing good on tv 😆
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I worked in user research at DirecTV--my boss would mention that older participants felt TV kept them connected/relevant to society.
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(a) Agree! And if you're too snobbish to see TV that way, how are books any different? (b) It's an interesting experiment to see an old show out of context, to realize how much is there in each episode and how much is context manufactured around the show. 1/
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