Priceless Paintings from W7

Some people ban television from their home. They say it enslaves people, and prevents people from using their spare time for things such as talking, interacting, playing, or reading. Not a bad argument, but I admit being lazy, and while I read as much as I can with a head exhausted from work, I do enjoying some amount of mindless entertainment in the evenings.

When looking around the neighbourhood in the early evening hours, that is, at times when my TV set is still off because I am either still at work, writing blog posts like this one, am cooking and preparing dinner, or enjoying any of the activities mentioned above, I can see that tell-tale blue-ish flickering light in many windows.

I thus wonder what would happen if TV broadcasting paused, nationwide, for some while – say, for argument’s sake, a week. Would people actually talk more, play more, read more? Or, would we simply see an increase in domestic violence, child abuse and alcoholism?

One would hope for the former but probably experience the latter, don’t you think?

Thoughts society, television