I blame everything on cable TV.
"Tony" grew up in New Jersey and works in Manhattan. This college educated young man asked me before flying down to Brazil, “Do I really need to bring reais? Don’t they all want U.S. dollars?”
"Mary" is in her forties, grew up just outside NYC, and travels periodically to see her family in Italy, Ukraine, and Argentina. Recently I overheard her advice to a traveler to Hong Kong. “Walk around the city, shop, and get some sushi.” I didn't realize she has thought of me as Japanese all these years.
I can go on with more examples and variations. The common link among these people is that they all dutifully watch cable TV every night. Their world and their existence is defined by channel package subscriptions, shaped by the programs they choose, and reinforced by TiVo. Fortunately for the likes of Rupert Murdoch, there is money aplenty to be made. Unfortunately for mankind, human knowledge now evolves around discourse over the finale of "Sopranos".
Yes, I believe the average person watches too much cable TV. I blame cable TV for human ignorance, cultural apathy, and endemic diabetes (not the genetic type). Healthy folks like me will eventually get taxed more to pay for viewers' self-inflicted agony.
It's time to turn off cable TV.
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