Anakin Reese Conn- Assignment 5

Being as upfront as possible, I don't watch television because the advertisement breaks are getting longer, and airtime is getting shorter.  Quality is spiraling down, everything has become either unfunny or blatantly scripted, and shows are being replaced, killed, and rerun left and right.  However, there are television shows and movies that I enjoy, so I either record them or find another method of watching them, like Hulu and Netflix.  Some examples of these shows and movies are Rick and Morty, Kingsman: The Secret Service, any movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the Aliens franchise.  Since so many of the benefits I receive from television are recorded movies, I practically don't watch television in real time.

Television may not be entertaining to me, but it must be for others, and I can't say that I'm against watching television, as it's no better than the activities I waste my time participating in, but that doesn't make watching television any less of time wasting activity.  Watching too much television can be dangerous, but I think that constantly carrying diet coke nuclear reactor fuel rods in your pocket will kill you faster than binge watching. 

As a disclaimer, I am not a scientist, but binge watching for 2 days straight is better than spending a full week watching shows.  Watching television doesn't require any effort, it just happens and you watch, so exerting no effort for two days and missing those 2 days is better than getting good sleep and missing 5 days while fully aware.  It's similar to becoming senile as you age.  Would you rather be aware of your mortality, or be happy for your last years before suddenly dying, and not being fully aware of the time you've wasted.

Also advertisements are pathetic now.  They used to be memorable, like the Iguana caveman and Jake from Land-division-Agricultural-establishment, but now it's become a mess of repeating advertisements and unusually edgy car commercials.  I truly miss the abominable Darryl Isaacs  commercials, the 20$ value products, and the Billy Mays commercials.  I regret saying I missed that stuff, but it's better than some of the stuff the television tells me to buy today.

The reason why the Emmy's get so much attention over Nobel Prizes is the same reason why the History channel started up Pawn Stars to compete with Storage Wars, that the Animal Planet channel released the Mermaids: The Body Found: It grabs more attention, and therefore it makes more money.  If How it's Made was as popular as the Game of Thrones, there would be 20 science channels instead of 20 reality show channels.  I do realize that comparing Game of Thrones and How it's Made is moronic, but I used two genres to connect it back to issue involving the Emmy's and Nobel Prizes, as the interest in these two prizes is a divided audience, one larger part enjoys comedians earning more money, while the other smaller part is interested in scientific findings.  The point is that this divide makes sense in our society, as our society has divided interests that put these prizes in different and appropriate audience pools.