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I watch TV and I like the news, movies and a few series. There are a few that hold my interest, just like a novel with an interesting plot might. I don't see why you'd feel superior for not watching it. I don't feel superior for reading books when many people don't. I don't think watching TV makes me less intelligent or decreases my worth as a person. I feel fortunate for having a good degree of intelligence and understanding of others. I think people who feel superior are deceiving themselves and shutting out other people. Variety is far more interesting than everyone being the same. Discussing favourite TV shows, which is not something I usually do, is only as lame as discussing men, women, friends, a book you've read, what you ate or will eat, somewhere interesting you've been...it's light small talk and people do it all the time. We can't always be talking about current affairs and quantum physics.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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