I don't know about anyone else, but I find it hard to watch shows that don't directly, or are unlikely to ever, affect me.
News that doesn't affect me, or TV shows that don't do me any good and aren't otherwise entertaining - in other words, they're pragmatically useless - turn me off. They're the equivalent of Disaster-Porn, Factoid-Porn. Watching destruction - either of nations, or of Charlie Sheen, or pretty much anything on the Discovery Channel filled with 'knowledge' I'm never going to use, is mental masturbation. I'm never going to go into screw manufacturing or need to learn hgow they make Bunsen Burners, nor do I have any use in watching epic CGI-created simulations of how the world MIGHT end, if -INSERT UNLIKELY NATURAL/HUMAN-CAUSED DISASTER HERE- happens on a global level.
Also, one would almost certainly be more healthy if they spent an hour outside walking, than if they watched Dr.Oz religiously.
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