One visited each socioeconomic from houses ranging from well over a million to subsidize. The main comparison of each of the four social classes in each household were simply every member of the family ranging from 2-6 members all watched the television on a daily routine usually starting around seven at night ! One has the utmost curiosity in this development due to the fact, would you rather not live life, instead watch a cheesy show that can keep your mind of your life for right around 45 minutes. The main question I would like ask my fellow Americans, will this trend ever change? Can us as people find another way to fill our life's with reality instead countless hours of staring at character making more money than one can even imagined. I have shows that I watch on a weekly basis, yet the television just like lullaby and helps me fall asleep. Food for thought and please reply because I do not think this trend will ever change, please anyone change my channel ! Extra Credit ; are Americans watching because they find their life's boring or because just plain lazy? Remember the goal of this simply make the reader ponder and notice the amount of time spent on your flat screen ( Video Games, PC Games included) will this be a stable for many years to come. I apologize of the seriousness and you can trust me when I say that most articles will have more wit than asking people a hard truth.
I don't watch tv but the telly (the pc no different) it's meant to dumb society down , so yeah it's the alt escape from reality outside of beer and drugs....
Escapism, pure and simple. It would be interesting to see how much people of other nations (in a similar economic situation) watch TV.
I agree with the escapism part. However, it is certainly not unique to America. I currently live in the USA as of two years, but I've most recently come from being in Japan for two years - and I would argue that it is just as bad, if not worse, over there. I grew up in Canada and same thing. No difference really in the UK either. I think that it may be a fairly uniform finding in economies of developed countries where people have large amounts of leisure time - 9-5 jobs, less than 40 work weeks, mid-60s retirement, ease of government welfare enrolment.