I don't own a TV. A few reasons being: cost, too easily sucked in...and also the news makes me depressed.
That being said I do get some TV time at the gym, which is just the right dose it seems, though lately it's been too much.
Why?
Well, as much as I loved "Grounded for Life" reruns (no lie, love that show) I really could do without the commercials. And it's not the amount of commercials, really, but what they are about.
5-hour energy commercials: get 5 hours of energy from drinking this tiny bottle of mystery crap...or you could GET MORE SLEEP.
Kellogs Fiber-Something or other bar: girl sitting on a bench "wishing" for a more fiber-ful & healthy snack...eat some fucking fruit.
Lean Cuisine (I think) commercial: you see a woman cooking a bunch of stuff, tons of pots on the stove, she's looking frazzled, wiping her brow, over-voice/text says something along the lines of "Think a good meal means a lot of work?" then shows her cooking up a pasta dish thing from a steamer-bag or something from Lean Cuisine...yes, cooking on the stove is SO much work, instead you should eat sodium & preservative laden crap from a bag you got in a grocery store freezer...
UGH.
It's such a mystery why Americans are fat, lazy and full of medical problems...
The problem is that our society has become this big timesuck. Everything is based on how fast we can get shit done so we can move on to the next thing. And a lot of us schedule our lives around work (because we need money because it's the root of everything...UGH), and so if you work crazy hours, it lessens your time. So we've created fast food to save time (and it's fuckin cheap). And I'm not saying it's good, but effort really needs to be put in if you're going to avoid it. Also there's the "organic" movement that is supposedly better than just regular farmed foods and that makes everything more expensive...which again can drive some people (especially larger families) towards fast food. Additionally, when you're a mother of four, going to school, and caring for a young child, cooking dinner 7 nights a week is fucking impossible. Grocery shopping for a family for a week takes immense planning because you have to know what you need for every dish (unless you magically have the TIME to go to the store every two days). So...my point...is...I think...that our society is too focused on rushing around and that's why all this shit was invented, to keep us rushing because we've created a very hurried and stressed society.
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