Ni'Ray+Cognitive+Suplus+Notes

Know
 * Gin drinking provided a coping machanism for people
 * Industrilization didnt just create new ways for working, it created new ways of living
 * because tv goes in through the eyes as well as the ears it immobilizes even moderatley attentive users
 * in the whole of the developed world the three most common activities are now work,sleep, and watching tv

Want to know
 * why was so many people drinking gin around that time
 * why is it that watching to much tv mean that were unhappy

Learn
 * in the 1720s London was busy getting drunk
 * The Gin Craze was a real event
 * The population was growing at a historical rate due to living conditions, health problems, and all sorts of crime
 * London was the site of the biggest influx of population
 * Parliament seized on gin
 * Selling gin was made illegal
 * Someone born in the 1950s has watched something like fifty five thousand hours of Tv already, and may watch thirty thousand hours before she dies
 * Spending to much time watching TV on the other hand is linked to higher material aspiration and to raise anxiety