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Several generations of people grew up watching a dozen TV shows and a few movies .... generations before that just read books .... and endless generations before that just talked to each other retelling stories to one another ... I think we can exist by just watching less.
I've got several subscriptions on the go right now and the more I think about it, the more I realize, I don't need all this junk and if there is something I really want to watch for some reason ... I'll go sail the high seas and get it myself.
In the 70s as a.kid I had exactly 4 channels to pick from (sometimes 5 if the weather was right ). One of those channels was PBS which always beat soaps and the news. Did us a lot of good. We have too much crap.
I was in rural northern Ontario ... we had about the same ... except that instead of PBS we had TVO, our provincial public broadcaster, and together with CBC, the two were basically our PBS ... every morning was watching 'The Friendly Giant' before heading off to school
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