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<blockquote data-quote="TyTy" data-source="post: 358738" data-attributes="member: 7891"><p>(patooyee's brother here)</p><p></p><p>We cut our cable off for about a year a while back, got it back when we first moved back to Georgia then cut it off probably a little over two years ago and will likely never get it back. Not having cable is one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. At first it is awkward, I couldn't figure out how I was going to fill that time...now I wonder how I ever had time for so much TV.</p><p></p><p>Everyone has things they just never seem to have time to do yet we always seem to find time to fit in TV. Hundreds of channels at the push of a button it's just too easy to plop down turn the TV on, turn your brain off. One show turns into 3 then 4 then whaddaya know it's 12,1,2 AM dang I better get to bed, gonna be tired tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>I'll take it one step further...TV is ruining this country. I mean that literally. The average American spends 1,768 hours a year, 34 hours a week, just under 5 hours a day watching TV. That is just 6 hours shy of a full time job every week. TV hit it's stride in America in the mid to late 50's and let's be honest we have gotten considerably dumber, fatter, lazier, and less family oriented since then. Could it be because we invest 34 hours a week sitting on our asses with our brains on off mode? What if we invested that time instead on things that mattered like our health, families, minds, side work, cooking better food, reading, writing, thinking, exercising, sleeping more, or whatever else? </p><p></p><p>When you think about it makes perfect sense, how are we investing our free time? What did people do with their free time before TV existed? Probably worked or slept, maybe studied, learned/practiced music, instruments or languages, read books, wrote letters, spent time with family and friends, maybe listened to music or a little radio programming with news mixed in. What do people do after work today? Plop down in front of the TV watching Honey Boo Boo bullshit while simultaneously checking Facebook on their smartphone, ignore their families while they eat frozen pizza. Watching FoxNews or MSNBC stretch 1 hour of news into 24 hours of soap opera politics mixed with stressful, scary stories about terrorism, the economy, or who was murdered or robbed in your area none of which you can do anything about even if you gave a ****. How is this healthy?</p><p></p><p>I'm not excluding myself from this caricature either, I am guilty too. I still struggle with being a 'normal' American but I believe i am ahead of the game having acknowledged the problem. Granted I am still fat and not the smartest guy on the planet (yet ;D) but at least now I am consciously working to invest my free time where it counts.</p><p></p><p>It's the ****in modern day matrix, do you want to stay plugged in?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TyTy, post: 358738, member: 7891"] (patooyee's brother here) We cut our cable off for about a year a while back, got it back when we first moved back to Georgia then cut it off probably a little over two years ago and will likely never get it back. Not having cable is one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. At first it is awkward, I couldn't figure out how I was going to fill that time...now I wonder how I ever had time for so much TV. Everyone has things they just never seem to have time to do yet we always seem to find time to fit in TV. Hundreds of channels at the push of a button it's just too easy to plop down turn the TV on, turn your brain off. One show turns into 3 then 4 then whaddaya know it's 12,1,2 AM dang I better get to bed, gonna be tired tomorrow. I'll take it one step further...TV is ruining this country. I mean that literally. The average American spends 1,768 hours a year, 34 hours a week, just under 5 hours a day watching TV. That is just 6 hours shy of a full time job every week. TV hit it's stride in America in the mid to late 50's and let's be honest we have gotten considerably dumber, fatter, lazier, and less family oriented since then. Could it be because we invest 34 hours a week sitting on our asses with our brains on off mode? What if we invested that time instead on things that mattered like our health, families, minds, side work, cooking better food, reading, writing, thinking, exercising, sleeping more, or whatever else? When you think about it makes perfect sense, how are we investing our free time? What did people do with their free time before TV existed? Probably worked or slept, maybe studied, learned/practiced music, instruments or languages, read books, wrote letters, spent time with family and friends, maybe listened to music or a little radio programming with news mixed in. What do people do after work today? Plop down in front of the TV watching Honey Boo Boo bullshit while simultaneously checking Facebook on their smartphone, ignore their families while they eat frozen pizza. Watching FoxNews or MSNBC stretch 1 hour of news into 24 hours of soap opera politics mixed with stressful, scary stories about terrorism, the economy, or who was murdered or robbed in your area none of which you can do anything about even if you gave a ****. How is this healthy? I'm not excluding myself from this caricature either, I am guilty too. I still struggle with being a 'normal' American but I believe i am ahead of the game having acknowledged the problem. Granted I am still fat and not the smartest guy on the planet (yet ;D) but at least now I am consciously working to invest my free time where it counts. It's the ****in modern day matrix, do you want to stay plugged in? [/QUOTE]
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