Un-TV

What is so appealing about coming home, sitting at the table, and wasting an hour or two in front of the TV? Have you ever really watched TV? It's the same thing over and over again! Opening credits, intro music, insert plot line here, creative camera angle, voice over, end credits. It's not a productive way to spend your day. Yet, the first thing I do every day when I get home is head for the television. It's not like I don't have more important things to be doing, but it's become cool to watch TV. Everyday we interact with other people and when we run out of real things to say to one another the go to is, "did you see what was on (insert mind numbing TV program name here) last night?!?!?!" We are compelled to watch TV by this false sense accomplishing something. As if now that I've watched Ted and Marshall have a sword fight in their apartment I'm somehow a more intelligent individual....? In actuality, all we do when we watch TV is enter a world that does not exist and remove ourselves from social interaction. You can't talk to someone while they're watching 'their show.' O QUIET; it's back! I want to hear this....ok sorry.