I usually don’t read the quotes on the side of Starbucks coffee because the sleeve covers them up but today I took the sleeve off, and found this quote from Michael Medved.
American’s spend an average of 29 hours a week watching television – which means in a typical life span we devote 13 uninterrupted years to our TV sets! The biggest problem with mass media isn’t low quality – it’s high quantity. Cutting down just an hour a day would provide extra years of life – for music and family, exercise and reading, conversation and coffee.
I think I would add a couple other things to this list of what could be done with the years of life regained by cutting back on TV-watching but his point is excellent, and is well worth repeating.
TV can be useful, and even helpful at times, but it’s hard to argue the point that the average American spends way too much time watching it!
Are you going to break out of the cultural pattern and live your life or, like millions of other Americans, are you going to waste years of your life watching fictional characters live fictional lives?
The choice is yours, but the consequences are real.