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No, I'm not advocating anything like your assumptions. Fact is, I'm watching a movie right now - DVD piped into a pre-dgital TV. We have the responsibility to choose our films and typical daily TV use is undermined by the ubiquitous and garbage laden media choices made for you. Show me a TV and I'll show you somebody that wastes a terrific amount of time - and doesn't know or appreciate that fact. We simply short-circuit the usual avenues and select the best on a very limited basis.

Regarding books, we have no lack. In fact, I have a library of well over 3,000 titles that are housed in every room in the house. Novels, classics, texts and technical. Absolutely no need to languish in literary obscurity when the best work of several millennia are a few steps away.

Music? Again, we have more than our share of CD’s, 33’s, 45’s and several hundred 78’s with a Victrola to play them as they were meant to be played. Classic to funk, but absolutely no junk.

So, I guess you could say that we have elevated “discernment” to a level much higher than that of most TV consumers given what I have seen around me for nearly 60 years. The notion that we are hiding, or, as you said, sticking our fingers in our ears is way beyond simply errant; ignorant is a better word. What we have done is disconnected from the cultural tit and taken control of our lives and we live much fuller, rewarding lives for it.