I cut the cord six years ago mostly because I’m a broke senior scraping along on Social Security. I was in a fringe area for over-the-air channels. For a while I tried to cling to some of the shows I liked (NCIS, ELEMENTARY) but their content veered away from what I wanted to see, and none of the new shows attracted me.
I was able to find enough stuff online. And now a strange change has made me utterly indifferent to anything the relic channels are offering. I visit friends and family and see them torpidly absorbing all this vacuous crap.
TV has created a passive America addicted to lowest-common-denominator pandering. I’ve chosen not to be part of that pack.
You're very right about that.
In fact, it was over 5 decades ago that Marshall McLuhan referred to Television as the "medium is the message"
At the same time the term "the opiate of the masses" was applied to Religion.
I believe today you could apply "the opiate of the masses" to Television itself.