Television!

I watch TV when I don’t feel like doing anything else. It’s not something I set aside time to do, but when I do I usually watch random shows on abc nbc cbs or ket since that was just about all I had up until the end of last year. I’m still not used to having more channels. The shows that I really like are talent competitions (America’s Got Talent, American Idol, etc.) and murder shows. My favorite is probably The Mentalist just because I find it interesting. I don’t watch television all the time now, but when I was younger I would turn it on in the morning before school, watch the news, then turn it on again when I got home and leave it on all night until I went to bed. I think TV is a good form of entertainment, but I also think it’s a very convenient delivery system for advertisers. For example, when I did watch TV every day, I could recite at least 30 commercials, especially the drug commercials which I’ve always found ridiculous. When I was younger I even told my mom I knew what to do if I ever got depressed: just sit around and wait for it to get better. That’s pretty much the opposite of what you do, but I’d seen plenty of Cymbalta commercials and that’s what I thought you did, and the numerous advertisements with depressed people convinced me of it.

Also, the fact that the Emmy’s get so much attention while the Nobel Prize announcements are barely noticed in the news shows how commercialized our society is. We don’t care that someone did a great thing for our society. We care about who wore what from who. It’s not just bad, it’s ridiculous. That doesn’t mean I plan to watch the next Nobel Prize announcement and skip the Emmy’s, I just think it’s sad how disproportional America’s interests are.