For the Love and Hate of TV - Gates

I personally don't ever watch any television, almost never. Which for a modern teenager is rather  unusual. I tend to think that watching TV is extremely unproductive, even on a rainy day. I'm a big thinker, so I like having an active brain all the time. When I say "I spaced out," what I really mean is that "I stopped paying attention because I was having a deep thought about something." Watching TV, according to psychology, can have the potential to be less productive than sleeping. Your brain is actually doing MORE while you're sleeping.

Due to the fact that the United States is becoming less and less attracted to being "intelligent," we have mostly been more attracted to other people's success and why we aren't them. The media takes advantage of that by broadcasting the Emmy's rather than the Nobel Prizes, which unfortunately, the Nobel Prize isn't that big of a deal anymore.