The average American watches 4.2 hours of TV a day.
That makes television the number one American passtime, far surpassing sports, work, reading, school… in fact, just about everything but sleep.
Americans spend more time watching television than anything else.
For the past fifty years in fact, we have all been participating in a kind of massive sociological experiment: What happens when a society spends 4.2 hours a day, every day, staring at a glowing screen.
What does it do to us? (more…)