As I sit here trying to recover from a 14 hour work day, I’m glad that TV is making me smarter.

From the NYT:

For decades, we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the ”masses” want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But … the exact opposite is happening: the culture is getting more cognitively demanding, not less.