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That's a great point. I find having to decide what I want to watch to be a feature as I want to be deliberate about how I spend my time and attention. I know plenty of 70+ year olds that are way too influenced by whatever cable news is constantly playing in the background.

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This is most of the the difference between McLuhan’s definitions of hot mediums vs. cold mediums. More power to you.

I just looked that up. The idea of hot and cold media's a useful way to think about this. The only thing knew about McLuhan before looking this up was that his most famous quote, "the medium is the message" which is worth pondering.

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