�The more television you watch, the more you see people who seem richer than you. Research shows that you will then overestimate the income of real people, and underestimate the value of your own. So the more television you watch, the more dissatisfied with yourself you become. You�ll also spend more money: By one estimate, you�ll spend an extra four dollars per week for every hour of television you watch. Of course, television is about drama, which means violence, infidelity, and amoral behavior, and you end up overestimating the frequency of these things in real life. You may conclude that the world is less safe than it actually is, and decide that you�d better stay home and watch more television.�
� From Rewire by Richard O�Connor
�The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.�
� Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
�People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it�s some sort of art medium, and it�s not. Others think it�s an entertainment medium, it�s not that either. It�s an advertising medium. It�s a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.�
� Bill Maher
�I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.�
� Stephen King
�Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.�
� Neil Postman
�Archaeologists are uncertain exactly when civilization may be said to have begun, but something resembling it appears to have existed by 6000 BC. Throughout the eight thousand years since, humankind has worked, played, invented, made love, fought, painted, written, read, gardened, raised children, sewed, sawed, solved problems, and resolved difficulties. We still do those things, although in somewhat altered proportions. In addition, we do one thing now that was not possible throughout most of history: instead of actually doing these things, we push a button and sit in our homes watching actors pretend to do them. This is, in fact, our principal leisure-time activity � so much so that some of us have a hard time imagining life without television.�
� From Living Outside the Box by Barbara Bock
�Watching TV is a major human activity. Because of its immediate benefits at negligible immediate marginal costs it is for many people tempting to view TV rather than to pursue more engaging activities. As a consequence, individuals with incomplete control over, and foresight into, their own behavior watch more TV than they consider optimal for themselves and their well-being is lower than what could be achieved. We find that heavy TV viewers, and in particular those with significant opportunity cost of time, report lower life satisfaction. Long TV hours are also linked to higher material aspirations and anxiety.�
� �Does watching TV make us happy?� (PDF) � Journal of Economic Psychology
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