People Who Live Without TV: “A recent study of those who live without found that about two-thirds fall into either the “crunchy granola set” or the “religious right, ultraconservative” camp, said researcher Marina Krcmar, a professor of communication at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University.”
People Who Live Without TV
– September 9, 2008
People Who Live Without TV: “A recent study of those who live without found that about two-thirds fall into either the “crunchy granola set” or the “religious right, ultraconservative” camp, said researcher Marina Krcmar, a professor of communication at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University.”
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I know there are lots of people like that out there, but it stills seems odd when I meet them. I have a student in one of my English classes who, as a freshman, has never used a computer in his life! That’s even more bizarre I think.
Out of those, who like myself, don’t watch tv I can only count two who aren’t crunchy granola or are not righty, conservative Christians. And one of them is on the border of crunchy.
I personally stopped watching tv when my parents decided to kill the cable for financial reasons when I was in high school (we kept the L.A. Times instead). Cable was a luxury that we couldn’t afford and our location on the beach prevented us from getting any channels via antenna (there was a mountain blocking us).
After missing it truly, madly, deeply for a month and a half or so, I just forgot about it. There was so little on that was worth while anyway. And I could still rent VHS when I wanted.
That was almost twenty years ago now. And I cannot say that I’ve ever missed it since that initial period of loss. If there’s a show that people cannot stop going on and on about, I can always just Netflix it. But for the most part, even the shows people rave about aren’t that good. They’re just good for television. On top of that, I’ve never been one for spectating sports. I just don’t have the gene. I’ll be happy to play with you, but I can’t imagine something less interesting than watching other people playing a sport when we could just go out and do the same thing.
As a Christian who doesn’t watch tv though, I do find that I constantly feel the need to explain myself to those who discover that I don’t watch. Getting lumped in with the Religious Right is even less appetizing than having to sit and watch the Super Bowl with people who actually cheer or shout at the screen while the game unfolds.
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