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Old 11-03-2010, 12:29 PM   #35
Maggie Leung
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I disagree that your brain "flatlines" while watching TV -- or movies. Good entertainment is good entertainment because it engages you. I don't believe that watching QVC is the same as watching Mad Men, for example, any more than I believe reading a cheap romance novel is the same as reading Shakespeare.

Of course you have the right to decide for yourself what to watch and consume as entertainment. What you don't have the right to do is call me a brainless idiot for enjoying TV or movies, or tell me I'm watching "too much." That's judgmental snobbery, pure and simple.
The flatlining I mentioned comes from brainwave studies. I wasn't posing it as an opinion. You are free to disagree with the science, of course. For me, it's about not wanting to get stupider. I already wish I were smarter, lol. I don't think that qualifies as snobbery.
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