Down with TV.

After a long day I got home around 9pm and Kristen and I watched some TV (sex and the city). It was very entertaining, but it almost makes it irrelivant to be together. After watching an episode (another was coming on) I decided to get away from TV and pull kristen with me (with some resistance). I was successful and we got to hang out for an hour before going to sleep.

The way I figure it, TV probably does cause harm to families. Time spent watching TV together is far from spending time together. No connection is felt other then the common experience of seeing something.

TV is also very attractive. Something is always happening and happening quickly. Look away from TV and you are suddenly faced with the desire to look back, since nothing is happening around you.

Probably the least appealing thing about TV for me is that there are no intresting stories. I am continually scanning channels for anything even remotely intresting. Part of watching TV seems to be the experience of digging for anything good among a sea of crap.

I think there is a big difference for watching a video (vhs, dvd, whatever). The story pulls you in, not the flash and the possibility that you might have found something good in the sea of crap. There is something much more satisfying about it.

Down with TV