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Lately, I’ve been seeing more ads for Hulu, encouraging people to sit and watch TV shows instead of doing anything else. It’s nothing new; 20 years ago, the ads for ABC said, “Tonight. We’re gonna sit like it’s 1999.”
Today, for some reason, I found the ads a little more thought-provoking. They were rather dumb: “Don’t just sit there. Sit there and watch something.”
The culture encourages laziness.
(Yes, you can watch an occasional show to relax and unwind, and it won’t make you a lazy bum. That’s not what Hulu wants of you.)
What are people supposed to watch? Other people doing amazing things: athletes, superheros, crime fighters, criminals who boldly evade crime fighters, etc. So, the culture lionizes physical accomplishment.
It’s paradoxical. Encouraging laziness while praising accomplishment is the surest way to breed low self-esteem and learned helplessness. Yet, the American culture has been doing that for the past 70 years or longer. It creates a very complacent society.
Don’t buy into that madness.
Today, for some reason, I found the ads a little more thought-provoking. They were rather dumb: “Don’t just sit there. Sit there and watch something.”
The culture encourages laziness.
(Yes, you can watch an occasional show to relax and unwind, and it won’t make you a lazy bum. That’s not what Hulu wants of you.)
What are people supposed to watch? Other people doing amazing things: athletes, superheros, crime fighters, criminals who boldly evade crime fighters, etc. So, the culture lionizes physical accomplishment.
It’s paradoxical. Encouraging laziness while praising accomplishment is the surest way to breed low self-esteem and learned helplessness. Yet, the American culture has been doing that for the past 70 years or longer. It creates a very complacent society.
Don’t buy into that madness.
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