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07-15-08, 11:22 AM
I have great difficulty tuning out commercials on television. Even if I have no desire to purchase a product, I don't like having a voice enter my head without my consent telling me my life would be so much better if I simply bought X. Most of us wouldn't let a salesman sit in our living room for four or five hours a day trying to get us to buy random things in thirty second spurts, yet we allow the audio/visual equivalent through hours of commercial television daily.
I didn't have a television in college, and there were very few times (as in, maybe once a year) I wished I had. Now I'm off to grad school, and I won't have a TV there either. It's not about being better than people as much as it's about lowering my blood pressure; ads stress me out. Besides that, as others have pointed out, it's so easy to spend hours passively consuming the TV. That's time we can never have back; it goes whether we spend it learning a musical instrument or absorbing hours of product placement. I'd rather spend it doing stuff.
I didn't have a television in college, and there were very few times (as in, maybe once a year) I wished I had. Now I'm off to grad school, and I won't have a TV there either. It's not about being better than people as much as it's about lowering my blood pressure; ads stress me out. Besides that, as others have pointed out, it's so easy to spend hours passively consuming the TV. That's time we can never have back; it goes whether we spend it learning a musical instrument or absorbing hours of product placement. I'd rather spend it doing stuff.