Johnson argues that watching TV makes you smarter because the shows have evolved more over time and they make you think more about what is happening. If you don't think and pay attention you will be lost. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I agree that some shows do indeed make you pay closer attention. They make your brain work trying to stay with what is going on and also at the same time trying to figure out what is going to happen next. Alot of these shows if you don't put some work into staying with it then you truely will be lost and be missing some important information to the plot or to a particular scene.
On the other hand, I believe that just watching TV does not make you smarter. There are so many shows that do not challenge your thinking at all and if that is all you are watching then how does that make you smarter? It simply doesn't. If you don't apply what you have learned or challenge your mind on a regular basis then it doesn't do anything for you.
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