Where do people find time to watch TV everyday anyway? I’ve never been one to laugh over favorite commercials and I'm still looking for the button that turns up the intelligences on the screen, so it was no loss when I tossed mine. The closest knob I’ve come to ratchet up TV IQ is called “brightness” but that didn’t work either.
Public radio works for me. There’s nothing like a good NPR talk-back program when I driving, or dressing – but TV demands too much attention and offers too little back. Have you noticed how the commercials seem more than the sho
ws these days?
I first got rid of the TV to bring up my daughter and then got one reluctantly after she started college. It's on twice a year or so when my son-in-law hooks it up for a football game during a family visit.
There are benefits to the brain for not having a TV:
Time saved from TV watch allows me to exercise more frequently
Rarely do I want food at night as I did during Raymond, 60 Minutes or news shows.
Speed-reading gives me more news in less time – without commercials.
Rather than face fear that comes from daily wars advertised on TV, I prefer the extra creative time to consider peace – and that takes time and talent which is wasted in front of boob tubes.
One friend says, “My work is so stressful that TV helps me to relax at night.”
How would you respond, given the fact that others say TV makes us cynical, wastes time, and detracts from truly relaxing venues that benefit the brain? For instance music lifts moods, friends offer insights, reading teaches facts and offers fantasy, exercise adds oxygen to stimulate the brain, or napping rewires the brain’s plasticity for another day’s success?
What do you think?
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