“Yet we, the opiated people and, especially, our children, nevertheless waste endless hours of our lives staring at the boob tube, mesmerized.”
I don’t know about that. My 13 yr old boy doesn’t watch tv at all streaming or otherwise. Rarely exhibits any interest in movies. Has seen extremely few. Doesn’t care.
And you will have people tell you that is impossible to do.
Same as our choosing not to give our kids smart phones and not allowing them social media.
“My 13 yr old boy doesn’t watch tv at all streaming or otherwise. Rarely exhibits any interest in movies.”
My teenage girls are like that and, for that matter, so am I. My TVs are often turned on but that is because they are being used as monitors for the security cameras! Haven’t been tuned into any entertainment content in years. The girls will go once or twice a year to a theater but this is to share the time with friends, not so much for the screen content.
My 14-year-old granddaughter is heavily into soccer and hanging out with her friends. No interest in movies or TV, either.