Life is not watching basketball or football. Life is playing basketball or football. Life is hanging out with your friends. And, life is not watching a family dinner on television. When you watch television, there is no process of osmosis that transfers the events on television into your own life.
Television is a waste of time.
Next year, when they triumph in the Super Bowl, I won't miss a single second of action. I'll also admit a weakness for the brain-tranquilizing comedy of The Simpsons. But there is so much to life beyond the inharmonious vibrations of television. I get a kick when I slip either clandestine, salient references or needlessly sophisticated vocabulary past my great editor and into print. I don't know why anyone could stand to watch television when they could write for The Crusader.