Except it wouldn't work for anyone that had to use their computer for work.
Difference between a computer and a TV is that a computer can be both a source of entertainment and producitivty..whereas TV rarely results in anything productive.
That's true, although I often have the feeling that I'm spending too much time in front of it, neglecting real life. My TV often stays out for a week or longer, so it doesn't feel like an experiment or a challenge for me. Maybe your right, it's better to forget about RL by communicating with other people via the net than lying around in front of the telly, but still I sometimes feel guilty about it.
But in general this "not watching TV for a week" thing sounds good to me, because I often have the feeling that people don't even realize how much time they spend watching complete crap.
I have found myself incredibly more productive, active, and frankly more interesting to talk to as I don't depend on the weekly episode to provide me with conversational material.
My observation relating to this way of living has been that my friends who do rely on a steady diet of television must talk to me about their lives, instead of the lives of their TV characters. It's annoying to them at first, but eventually the vast majority of my friends have learned to talk to me about books they have read, interesting things from their lives, or other items from living life as themselves and not viacariously through a character plot.
Do the History, Military, Discovery and offspring of Discovery channels count as TV? Do C-Span and C-Span 2 also count? What about the Exercise channel?
anything that's constructed around narratives, plots, or otherwise manipulates content to produce climactic or summarized content (history, discovery, military, etc.) would probably count as idiot-box fodder. smarter, but still television in the regular sense. C-span doesn't have commentators, narrators, or any way to sum um, so i'd put it in a not-TV category.
That was precisely my question. The only time I ever turn on the TV is for the weather and traffic in the morning and to watch the History Channel (if they are airing anything I'm interested in).
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Difference between a computer and a TV is that a computer can be both a source of entertainment and producitivty..whereas TV rarely results in anything productive.
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Maybe your right, it's better to forget about RL by communicating with other people via the net than lying around in front of the telly, but still I sometimes feel guilty about it.
But in general this "not watching TV for a week" thing sounds good to me, because I often have the feeling that people don't even realize how much time they spend watching complete crap.
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I have found myself incredibly more productive, active, and frankly more interesting to talk to as I don't depend on the weekly episode to provide me with conversational material.
My observation relating to this way of living has been that my friends who do rely on a steady diet of television must talk to me about their lives, instead of the lives of their TV characters. It's annoying to them at first, but eventually the vast majority of my friends have learned to talk to me about books they have read, interesting things from their lives, or other items from living life as themselves and not viacariously through a character plot.
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