TV has to cater to mediocrity because it follows the money. Much like religion does. You have the uber-ignorant without money (Faecesbook, missions, reality TV) where money is created from labor with the promise of rewards, then the uber-rich who pay someone to watch or go to church for them, and then the masses; where most of the advertising has saturated people so they’ll always be watching or buying something, anything if it will make the market voices (thoughts) in their head stop talking (never works).

The effective 'beauty' of saturation marketing is that it doesn’t have to be good; it just has to be always there.

Being anti-TV doesn’t mean I don’t like it or am not as addicted to it, either. It just makes me hate myself for watching it and go buy something to distract from that guilt.

We all have the socket in our brainstem for high bandwidth manipulation. Mediocre is all that is needed to connect to it.

High art is for moderating (distracting from the distractions), as is Going Outside and Doing Things.

Does anyone actually remember the latter as “normal”?