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What happens when we start reading more books and start watching less TV?

We aren't going to make any friends amongst people who worship TV, people who produce TV shows, and advertisers. Good thing we don't care very much.

  1. People might get smarter. Books are supposed to make you smarter, and TV is supposed to make you dumber, and if you increase your intake of the former, and lower your consumption of the latter, there's a very good chance your brain cells are better off.
  2. People's attention spans might grow longer.
  3. People might start to use their imaginations more. It would be quite tough at first - to imagine what a crime scene looks like instead of seeing it on TV. Eventually people would get the hang of it.
  4. All that freedom from advertising might mean people stop associating happiness with buying a particular product.
  5. A lack of advertising in people's evening fare might mean acceleration of the death of advertising - a trend which the Internet kicked off.
  6. People might grow their vocabularies and have more words to describe what they feel and experience. Which might turn the world into a far more beautiful place than reality television.
  7. Instead of a pattern of quick meaningless hits of dopamine, people would start experiencing slow build-ups to far more exhilirating experiences.

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