Commercials Waste Valuable Years

mvsimmons said:
I get the fact that television's a relatively cheap form of entertainment. I even understand how some of us think it's a major factor in broadening our horizons. And by watching ads, we're paying for the privilege of having concealed voyeurism wired/aired straight into our homes.

But if you take a minute to think about it, you might be shocked at just how much of our lives is spent in front of a box. If you watch ten hours a day, that's three thousand six hundred and fifty hours a year. Times ten years is Thirty Six Thousand five hundred and if you live to be a hundred, you will have watched 365000 hours of TV. That's 15.208.33 years!

Even if you only watch half of that much, do you really think television's worth over seven and a half years of our time on earth? Now comes the kicker, I don't have the actual numbers to go by, but if around half of that is commercials, when you pass on you will have spent three to four years watching junk.

And the proverbial cherry is that you likely spend around a hundred American dollars a month just to be sold to. And by the time you've bought one of their products, you will have been tripled dipped and smothered in shame.

Moral of the story is, stop watching and start LIVING!
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At some point early in our lives, we stop thinking about the value of what we're engaged in. If we did, who would choose to watch commercials?

Still, these days TV is less of a problem than the internet. As I've stated elsewhere, people seem to feel compelled to have opinions, and strong ones at that, about just about everything. Whether it directly has an impact on their life or not, they hold strong. Discernment is at an all time low, imo.

It's how commercials have merged with content that needs to considered too. So, we went from a Coke commercial to product replacement in TV shows and movies, for example. Add in any and all kinds of products, from cars to hairstyles. We blissfully wander along largely unaware of how much of this hard sell we're accepting and following.

Too few seem to care that most of what we see on the internet is targeted. That is, we're never working in a free space without bias.
 

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