I found this on another blog and I am sad that I missed TV Turn-Off Week. I would have totally participated. I checked out some of the stuff the organization that sets it up had to say on their website and I like it. I know it is more zoned toward children and families, but I think maybe I will have my own little TV Turn-Off month anyway in the hopes of getting my house packed up and ready to move. I've gone without watching TV for long periods of time in the past and it can be a good thing. I'm not saying I'm going to throw away my TV or anything (partly because it is my roomate's) and I am not even saying that I am not going to watch my favourtie shows, but I am saying that I think I agree with what these people have to say and this would be a good 3 weeks for me to try some of their suggestions.
They had a couple quotes on their website that I wish to share.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -T.S. Eliot
We have reconstructed the Tower of Babel, and it is a television antenna: a thousand voices producing a daily parody of democracy, in which everyone's opinion is afforded equal weight regardless of substance or merit. -Ted Koppel
4 comments:
Matt: Participating in things without even knowing it, since 1980.
I think it'd be a good idea to have your own month without television. I've been living largely TV-free for the last several years, it's nice. Occasionally, someone will look at me funny, because there's something popular on TV that I have no clue about. When I first met Ariann, I noticed that about her. She knew very little about pop culture, and missed some of the references we bandied about it. In the end though, I think she had the right of it. Really, though, can being like Ariann be a bad thing?
I already did a month without TV this past January as a New Year's resolution. I think I watched a couple episodes of Gilmore Girls though - but that's fine. The point is new habits, not being anal about "rules" so I feel I was successful.
Just feel like I've been a bit down this week and if I let myself I could spend the next month in front of the tv and moving day would approach and I'd have nothing done yet. That would be a nightmare.
I totally think that cutting down on tv time is a good thing, and I liked the website's suggestions, too. But I couldn't help but notice that some of their suggestions are things you could do (and I often do do (ha! doo-doo!)) in front of the television!
I know, I saw that too! Hah!
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