TV or not TV?
That is the question

QUESTION: I feel rather
dismal over the way in which
I am allowing television to
crowd into my evenings and
claim for itself so much of
my time. At least three
nights aoeweek, and
sometimes even more, I sit
down to watch TV “for a
while” and end up watching
it for hours. Many a time I
have started watching as
early as 7 o'clock and have
continued until the end of
the Carson show at 12:30
a.m. Sometimes I even add a
late movie to that agenda.
Why would a grown man
allow himself to do
something like that, even
after he has become aware
that he is so critical of
himself for doing it?

it seems to me I am acting
as though TV is an addiction
of mine. I make resolves to
watch it less, or to refuse to

ticular week and agree with
myself not to watch anything
else.

But none of these plans
has worked very well. Too
often all together I waste a
whole evening, promising
myself time and again that
after the thing ['m watching
is over Tl turn off the darn
machine and walk away
from it. But I don’t keep the
promises. What's to do? And
for goodness sake, don’t tell
me I need to develop will
power!

STEWART: | think you are

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You are probably feeling
badly over neglecting some
responsibilities, or some
fnends, or the fulfillment of
your life, or having fun, or
Nurturing your yen to
become the person you want
to be. You are not dismal
because you are allowing TV
lo create your reahty, so
much as you are dismal
simply because you are not
creating your own reality.
Tapering off on TV won't
help you become your real
self. But becoming your real
self will equip) you for
handling TV (and a lot of

on the verge of discovering other things) Go forit! _.

TV has taught you
something that will be of
benefit to you. Why fight
TV? What's) wrong with
watching it five or six hours,
a night, four or five days a
week? I think you may not
be dismal about watching

wateh -certain programs, or
to watch only Channel Nine,
or to make a list of what I
will watch during a par-

TV, bul rathér you are
dismal over what you are
NOT doing instead of
watching TV.

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QUESTION: I live’ very
close to the centre of a hot-
spot on the North Shore. The
reason our spot is hot is cats.
It's hard for me to under-
stand how it is possible for
four or five otherwise
friendly families of human
beings to become belligerent
with one another over the
behaviour of a few cats.
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more obnoxiously than the

cats are. Three families I

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Hayden won't get catty

know of are against the cats
and two are all for them. Our
home is smack in the middle
of this childish squabble.
Can you support one side or
the other and help us get this
business untangled?

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any war over cats. Let the
world know I am a con-
tented pacifist. I turn my
back, and run for cover,
leaving others to endure the
carnage. My feeling is that
you people will suffer for a
while, or even become
mortal enemies until
someone (not me!) comes up

with a plan of action that will
result in a ceasefire.

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humble about the brilliance
of my decisive commitment
to neutrality in this case.
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years ago took a stand about
cats in this column and
found that cat lovers are
rather excitable people. It
was Mark Twain who said
that a person who tries to
carry a cat home by the tail
learns twice as much as he
would have learned if he had
not had the experience. If
you learn that much from a
cat — imagine what you'd
learn from a cat lover. That's
what I always say.

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