Has any autist here tried getting rid of your TV? Did you read more? Did you feel more alive? Or did you spend all day jerking off and pacing back and forth contemplating hanging yourself as I assume DFW did as well? Seriously considering trying it so that I can hopefully read and write more, but I do have people over sometimes and might buy a small TV to keep in my closet for guests.
>>24814734Nobody watches TV, you must get rid of your smartphone and all social media except /LIT/
>>24814753I watch shows on streaming services and play videogames on my TV. If I got rid of it I would switch entirely to pirating movies/shows/music for non /lit/ entertainment on my X220 thinkpad (which I would keep to post books I've never read on /lit/ and sissy hypno everywhere else) and I need my phone for work but I can get rid of social media.
>>24814769you are being too passive, expecting media to entertain you, wash over you, happen and flow around you, it's a long and difficult process, but I've done it. I cut off most social media and screentime. Now instead of glancing at my phone while waiting for something like an elevator or work break. I glance at something I've read, and my brain PRODUCES more thoughts by looking within for entertainment and making connections with memories, actions and theories.
>>24814783I'll find somewhere to put my tv tomorrow while I figure out whether to sell it or give it to someone I know, thanks. I've been limiting myself to only gaming/etc on the weekends but that's just led to me spending all of both days on the couch staring at the TV. Guess I'll finally commit to it and see how it goes.
>>24814734I haven't owned a TV for 5 years. I deleted all social media and scrolling apps from my phone a few months ago. 4chan and the occasional youtube video or video game is all I have left, plus a couple of book-related discord servers. >Did you read moreThere are days where I spend my whole free time reading but on other days I lapse into gaming. >Did you feel more aliveFeel as I ever have honestly. When I was a kid we had 3 channels all in all on our TV and no Internet so I mostly read in my room. In a way I have just gone back to that.
no because i like watching sports i can't imagine using my tv for anything else
>>24814734I lived almost two years with no tv after I moved. Eventually bought one to watch the occasional football match with friends or a movie when I have a chick over. Otherwise it has never eaten into my reading timeIn general it should be considered unrefined to have a bookshelf smaller than your tvJust perk off under the shower to optimize time>>24814769>videogamesThere's your problem. Grow up already
>>24814960If I replied to op it would be 96% this. Getting rid of a tv is easy. They look ugly anyway. Reading fluctuates from all day every day to not once in weeks. Can't even pinpoint why. Sometimes it's my favorite thing other times I'd rather stare at the wall than read.
>>24814734TV was never an addiction for me. It has always been the internet and social media. This is coming from a millennial btw if it matters. I am really thinking of throwing my desktop and smartphone into the trash.
>>24815078>There's your problem. Grow up alreadyMaybe you oughta mind your own business
>>24815147You made the thread making it everyone's business faggot
actually, bingeing full seasons of reality tv is more intellectual now because television itself has become a countercultural relic of the past
>>24814753My smartphone is where 90% of my reading happens. The only physical book I read to completion in the last 3 years was /lit/'s Moby Dick annotation
>>24814913I recommend getting like 10-20 pocket books. and just cycling through them. Not sure what you are into but I have a pocket macbeth, bible verses, and plato. You might be cranky for a week like withdrawing from cigarettes, the brain demands dopamine action, but just commit to 30 days and see what happens
>>24815516I have trouble reading entire books digitally. Not sure what it is. Just need it in my hands if you know what I mean.
I spent 3 months in a psych ward and it didn't quash my phone addiction
>>24814734Do you think it's the 90s? No one outside the TV generations watches it at all. Social media keeps us captive because we're so lonely, disconnected, and without community that we'd just wither and die if we kicked it to the curb like it morally deserves. DFW might've agreed with the AA maxim that the opposite of addiction is connection.The only reason I don't spend 24/7 doing fulfilling tasks of self-actualisation is because I'd get too depressed to even function. The only way to accomplish the freedom from addicting Entertainment is by finding community.
>>24815516>My smartphone is where 90% of my reading happens.WTF anon, how do you accomplish that? Also where can I get that moby dick?
>>24815698Good post.
>>24815713NTA but here:https://www.lulu.com/shop/herman-melville-and-anonymous/moby-dick/paperback/product-7wgny7.html?page=1&pageSize=4lurk moar for the free pdf
tv? boomer much?
Interesting people still own TVs and watch shows/movies and are glued to their phones. I don't think it's necessarily holding someone back.
