Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Television (was Teen room advice request)

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

> I don't want TV in the commons house full-time because I think casual TV
> use rots not only brains but social connections that would spring up if the
> "on" button weren't so darned easy to push. My dad was a creative director
> at one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country and he raised us
> to be proper skeptics  of all things TV.  If I cannot always resist the
> siren call of the silly set, how am I to believe the rest of my
> neighborhood will - especially the kiddiddles?
>
> On the other hand, I think TV-viewing can be a planned social event with
> many redeeming values.  So I lugged my set over for Election Night, the ACC
> basketball tournament (a religious event in these parts) and most recently
> for a 6-hour marathon viewing of Pride and Prejudice (the Firth/Ehle
> version - highly recommended).  I know I will cheerfully lug it over many
> times in future - but it doesn't live there.
>
> Jessie Handforth Kome
> Eno Commons
> Durham, NC

I don't think you're as far from wanting a TV in the commonhouse as you say.
It's easy enough to have it in a cabinet that only gets opened for special
occasions, negating the need to schlep it around.

Does anyone have experience in having a full-time TV in the commonhouse? My
suspicion is that people watch TV mostly at home, and that CH TVs get used
more for special events, even when they are available all the time.


--
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California

tamgoddess [at] home.com
http://members.home.net/southsideparkcohousing
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