The answer is easy. I don't watch TV. In fact, I don't own a TV.
So while most people spend hours watching soap operas and the like, I'm much more stingy on the visual media I consume. I very specifically search for movies I want to see. I don't just watch any movie, and I don't invest time in just any TV-series. For instance, I recently started to watch the first season of Rome, but after it turned into nothing more than a sexed up soap opera I quit watching it. A slow storyline interspersed with soft porn is not enough to have me, even with my perverted sensibilities, invest that many hours in it.
Also, it just seems like I'm watching an awful lot of movies. I don't really; usually one movie a week (i.e. approximately 2 hours). Compare that to the amount of hours most people spend a week watching TV (approximately 10+ hours)!
The next movie I plan to see is a Korean animation, Aachi & Ssipak (2006), and since I have a cold and won't be going to Hapkido and Taekwon-Do training tonight I might even watch it tonight.
2 comments:
When I was a kid I sometimes had cable and sometimes I had rabbit-ears. Those rabbit-ears only gave a few channels. During those times I read a lot of books and did other stuff that was more productive. I didn't watch television in high school. I missed it for a few weeks, then I stopped. The only problem was that the students often talked about television programmes and I didn't have anything to say. Not watching television made most of the stuff on there seem ridiculous and obnoxious.
There is a satellite dish now at the house and I like to see mostly history and science shows. I love watching Dr. Michio Kaku's "Sci-IQ Sundays" and "Humanology" on the Science Channel. It's much better than the garbage that is on there. Soap operas are for those who wish they could be living that fantasy.
A friend sent me the following related link: http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2428576,00.html
In short, happier people watch less TV.
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