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I don’t watch Television. Some people find it strange, but I find it liberating and I’ve been saved for 14 months now. What do I do with all the free time?
In Finland you have to pay a TV watching fee that is quite a robbery in comparison to what you get. I calculated that the ammount I used to watch television wasn’t quite high anyway. So I switched the TV to a video projector and I watch movies, documentaries and play online games when I have the time to sit down. The money I spend in renting the best stuff is less than the finnish TV fee.
I’ve also noticed that I also have lots of more time. I read more quality news, articles and books. I have more conversations, offline and online. I feel that my personal learning has skyrocketed after I denied the intellectual lobotomy delivered through TV.
When I need the entertainment -part of TV, I watch Youtube or any of the other social video sharing sites on the web. There are lots of free documentaries, too. See for example here.
If you do a little bit of searching, you can find lots of quality material that you can’t find from the mainstream media. Recently I’ve been using a lot of time at VBS.TV, they have really interesting reportage from around the world and the in-room flash player for watching is the best I’ve seen on the web. First you find it quite strange that the leve on reporting is not sensational but just picturing the life and ideals of people in foreign cultures. Watch for example Heavy Metal in Baghdad or Inside Sudan. After you get over the need for sensationalism you notice the true value in seeing the hidden back-scenes of events that the mainstream media is covering. The Sudan series is a good example.
According to finnish studies on TV hours spent, the ammount young people watch television has been declining slowly in the last five years. The younger generation increasingly surfs the web for stories, ideas, entertainment and community.
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