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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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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There's nothing wrong with crutches per se, it just depends on the relative amount they help you vs hold you back. TV watching could just be a local loneliness minima that our society is just stuck in right now.
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