I stopped watching television several years ago, and there were several reasons for doing so. The first being that there really is so little original content, this was my initial reason, I was flipping through the 300+ channels we had and there was nothing on that wasn't either mind-numbingly stupid or I hadn't already seen a dozen times. After a few months I realized that I didn't want to watch television any more, most of the programs didn't appeal to me any more. I began to notice that television was all people ever talked about, they didn't talk about each other or the weather, just what they were going to watch tonight. Then I began to notice that people had stopped caring about important political issues, and it seems to me that politics at least on television is all about rooting for your favorite team. Now when somebody asks me "Have you seen...?" I tell them that I don't watch television and they look at me like I am some kind of bug-eyed monster. I find that rather disturbing. Then again I have always preferred working with my hands or reading to television.