Jeremy Zawodny posts on TV watching and happiness:
In one of those “well, duh!” moments the other day, I came across a headline on Slashdot that said Unhappy People Watch More TV. Given that I mostly stopped watching TV quite some time ago and consider it to be one of the more rude devices in our culture, I clicked thru to read about how others have discovered what I’d already guessed was true…
His recommendation? Read Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death. Couldn’t agree more.
I do spend a few hours a week watching DVDs and such — but almost never watch broadcast TV. (I did a bit during the election, and boy was it depressing!)
