Why is it that I feel guilty wasting an evening watching television or a movie, but I don’t feel nearly as bad spending those same four hours reading a book? The only thing I can think of is some false ideology ingrained from my youth. When I was a kid we were always told that reading was good, while watching TV was bad. Aren’t they really the same thing? If I spend several hours reading a book, I get exactly as much accomplished as if I was watching a movie. Less really, if you consider how far along I get in the storyline.
And don’t give me any of the “but you use your imagination” while reading nonsense. The suspension of disbelief to accept that the fat awkward looking guy is married to the unfairly gorgeous gal in EVERY GODDAMN SITCOM is stretching my imagination about as far as it can go. A story is a story, and whether you’re following actors playing a scene or reading the play, it all ends the same.
I’m not saying that television is better than reading a novel. My point is that in the end you accomplish the exact same thing. Unproductive time dedicated to entertainment. Fair enough. But I still feel better at the end of the day if I wasted time reading than other things. It don’t make no sense, ya’ll.
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