entirely too often, i come home, make some sort of food, or reheat something i've got in the fridge, and curl up in the corner of my couch or on my bed to mindlessly watch television. nielsen ratings show the average american watches more than 4 hours of television every day, or about 2 months of nonstop television watching per year. 

i feel like i go to television to become a veggie and forget about the world, but thinking harder, it's so much more than that. it inspires my style, informs my understanding of history, and gives me a place to relate to and connect to portrayed human experience. 

is television a place we remember, or a place we forget?