Not watching TV and Film is the equivalent of saying “I don’t read” in the Victorian era. Good fiction explores the human condition. It poses questions to the reader / viewer to consider. It uses alternative settings to reframe real world events and forces you to re-evaluate things from different perspectives. It can break you out of rutted thinking.
Now there’s an awful lot of shit out there too, but not watching Schindler’s List because Love Island is crap is ludicrous.
Kind of a shit take. Printed material was the only widely distributable/available vehicle for fiction in the Victorian era, which is absolutely not true of tv/film in the modern era. I generally avoid TV and movies as well; not because I don’t like fiction, but because I don’t like my fiction to be filtered by financial ghouls and focus groups clutching their pearls hard enough to turn their knuckles white.
Not watching TV and Film is the equivalent of saying “I don’t read” in the Victorian era. Good fiction explores the human condition. It poses questions to the reader / viewer to consider. It uses alternative settings to reframe real world events and forces you to re-evaluate things from different perspectives. It can break you out of rutted thinking.
Now there’s an awful lot of shit out there too, but not watching Schindler’s List because Love Island is crap is ludicrous.
Kind of a shit take. Printed material was the only widely distributable/available vehicle for fiction in the Victorian era, which is absolutely not true of tv/film in the modern era. I generally avoid TV and movies as well; not because I don’t like fiction, but because I don’t like my fiction to be filtered by financial ghouls and focus groups clutching their pearls hard enough to turn their knuckles white.