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Do Americans have hobbies anymore?

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MrX
Each of us evolved and is hard-wired to exist in a close-knit community of around 25-100 people.
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What? Hard-wired to exist in a close-knit community? Why/How? There's always been hermits and gregarious people and megalomaniacs/psychopathic "leaders" who can only relate/interact with very large groups of people. Each of us is a fokken mess.
 
MonkeyF0cker
Then again, maybe people are just attracted to TV out of laziness and convenience. I don't see any evidence of evolution impacting the methods for which our brains approach certain societal situations. There have been civilizations of more than 100 people for thousands upon thousands of years. We've had modern TV for 60 years. Sorry, the math just doesn't add up. If you want to call it an escape like drugs or alcohol, that's suitable, but to call TV an evolutionary crutch is beyond absurd.
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I agree with this. MrX was completely projecting in his post.

People have been living vicariously through entertainers/avatars/simulacrums, or playing pointless unproductive games, since they were banging rocks together. TV isn't even much of a big deal in the big picture, nor is the Internet. All that's improved is the availability of entertainment, the immediacy of it. Some people say that the Internet killed distance - it has not, trust my travel expenses. The Internet has killed downtime.

If you spend most of your free time watching TV, you're either depressed or have an overly-exerting job that fulfills all your needs in intellectual/physical activity.

(I'd like to go back to making one-line snide remarks now. I'm a pathetic nine-to-fiver now.)
 
BTW, the Internet and TV haven't killed hobbies either, far from it. Every fokken old school hobby is thriving now thanks to topical forums such as this one.

(Sports-watching and sports-betting is totally a hobby, you fools.)
 
Pavy
I watched a show about your neighbors the other day on TV. They were promoting marijuana growth in the Emerald Triangle. Now I understand why you used to call yourself a farmer. Didn't realize it was legal back then when we were chatting. Looks like a clean good farming business to me.
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Yeah Pavy, there's not much else to call what I do besides farming. I plant in the spring, maximize growth in the summer, harvest right before the first heavy autumn rains, and then process the finished product during the winter while cultivating new mother plants from which to take my cuttings in the spring which starts the process over again. The only part which could be seen as less than clean is the fact that the Department of Agriculture in California isn't keeping up with the growth in marijuana cultivation and misses a lot of my colleagues who have no problem dumping waste chemicals into the water supply. Just like any human endeavor, you have to police those which have no conscience, and I think once we get to that point, growing marijuana may finally become the established American industry that was envisioned by George Washington and other Founding Fathers.
 
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