Comments on: More People Are Unhappier Than Ever http://www.patrickkphillips.com/2008/12/02/more-people-are-unhappier-than-ever/ Thoughts on TV, Double Standards and Bad Grammar Since 2004 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Paul http://www.patrickkphillips.com/2008/12/02/more-people-are-unhappier-than-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-9383 Paul Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:19:58 +0000 http://www.patrickkphillips.com/?p=2774#comment-9383 I think people who watch a lot of television would be much happier if there was something on worth watching. Is it any surprise that spending five hours a day flipping through 125 channels and finding nothing nothing but reruns of Family Ties, The Surreal Life, and Two and a Half Men can become kinda depressing? OK, so I kid. The TV isn't what's making people unhappy. The watching of lots of TV is a symptom of <i>being</i> unhappy. I think people who watch a lot of television would be much happier if there was something on worth watching. Is it any surprise that spending five hours a day flipping through 125 channels and finding nothing nothing but reruns of Family Ties, The Surreal Life, and Two and a Half Men can become kinda depressing?

OK, so I kid. The TV isn’t what’s making people unhappy. The watching of lots of TV is a symptom of being unhappy.

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