You might have the causation reversed. If TV is the opiate of the masses, then the people who watch it at the people who need to dope themselves. The people who don’t bother with TV and pursue labour of love may enjoy living in Rat Park but a lot of other people self-medicate with TV because they just need to stop feeling what they feel all day.
Maybe that’s unreasonably bleak, but if rats will choose to waive the morphine if they are sufficiently interested in their lives, then I would think that people might choose to waive the TV as well (barring, of course, the fact that there are very interesting TV shows and it’s fine to watch TV if you want to).
