Who really cares about TV anymore?

Why do people always need the next big-screen plasma TV? It's almost like they really feel they need to have it. What is there that's so great to watch? Is the next episode of Lost coming on soon? So what? I don't care because I feel that TV is a colossal waste of time. Sure, you've had a rough day, and you think you deserve to be able to sit your lazy ass in front of the TV and watch whatever show you feel like when you realize that there's so much more to do in life. TV fills the void in many people's lives, but the only reason it does it because those people haven't found something else to attribute that time to. If they were exercising instead of watching TV, maybe this country wouldn't be full of overweight fatcats. You know, if we cut out TV completely from our "diets," I think that we may in turn become one of the most productive countries in the world. No more sitting at home watching Survivor on Temptation Island 2. No more checking if Drew Carey got together with whoever the fuck he goes out with. No reason to check on Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien because they are just on too late. To me, I find that a lot of people base their whole lives by what's on TV. They're like, "Let's see. I have to do this tonight, but Charmed is on, so I'll have to do that some other time. It's an all-new one." What is with all=new? Like only part of it is going to be new. "Today we have a half-new Power Rangers on. The first half is the same old crap you've already seen, but in the second half, we'll show you something new." What the hell? And then shows will fuck with you, like if it plays weekly and all-new ones are coming out, every once in awhile, there won't be an all-new one, but one from the same season, but previously in the season, that you most likely already saw and don't feel like wasting your time watching, but you still do. There's always something better to do. Work out. Take up a hobby. Sell stuff. Shoot birds at the airport. I don't care. The fact is that we're spending more time in front of a piece of furniture than we are interacting with human beings and animals that are real. We know more about Bart Simpson's childhood than our grandmother's childhood. We can tell you if The Price is Right, but we haven't actually went out and bought anything significant to boost energy levels. Many people just spend hours and hours in front of the TV during those "marathons." Don't watch a marathon, run a fucking marathon. Imagine the story you could tell. Don't watch Gilligan's Island, go to Gilligan's Island. that's the type of thing you have to do. Why watch other people have a great time when you could be doing it yourself? Am I right? Just imagine what would happen if we all stopped watching TV. Just think about that for a minute. Then imagine what would happen to all the TV networks. Kerplunk. All bankrupt because the deflated Nielsen ratings will cause the sponsors and advertisers to stop wanting to get their commercials on the air, which in turn will cause the networks to lose all their revenue. And a collapse ensues. And we're all grateful for this collapse because we now have found much better things to do with our lives, therefore making TV obsolete. Sure, we still have the Internet, a wasteland of advertisements, everywhere you look, ads, ads, ads. But that's something for another article. Because there's too much to say. But TV is just awful when you look at it long enough. What is there to watch? Even if you think you like a show, try not watching it once. Does it kill you? NO, I hope not. I remember a couple of times I was really into a show, watching it, waiting for the commercials to end, etc, but at one point, I was like, "Why do I even care? This isn't my life. Why should I care about these people if they're not even real?" So i turned the damn thing off and I'm on the path to stopping this incessant TV viewing for good because it's just so damn pointless. It's almost as if TV is some kind of drug that we are all addicted to, except for a select few. I just don't want to be the guy who bases all his conversations about Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. You dig?