"TV doesn't really seem to satisfy people over the long haul the way that social involvement or reading a newspaper does," says University of Maryland sociologist John P. Robinson, the study co-author and a pioneer in time use studies. "It's more passive and may provide escape - especially when the news is as depressing as the economy itself. The data suggest to us that the TV habit may offer short-run pleasure at the expense of long-term malaise."You can read the article here.
What wasn't clear to me from the article was cause and effect: does watching television cause depression, or do depressed people watch more television?
I think most people are happier participating than they are watching. Just to be on the safe side, I'd go ahead and pitch the TV in the bin.
1 comments:
Yep.
Blow up your TV, throw away your paper, go to the country, build you a home.
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches, try and find Jesus on your own.
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