100 things: #22 - No TV for One Year

As Neil Postman says in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985), "The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. ... spend the holidays volunteering at a soup kitchen; make the front page of a national newspaper; create a website; do amateur night at a comedy club; stay in the best suite at a five star hotel; host a Luminara party ...