I don’t own a TV and am nonetheless somewhat depressed. I think TV is not any worse than other passive activities, such as watching YouTube, browsing news, scrolling Instagram, playing games, online shopping, … (and I don’t mean from time to time, but hours upon hours every day)
Indeed. TV is just one of many possible negative passive addictions.
yeah, we should generalize "tv" here to broader "screen-time"
Maybe we should even generalize further to "mentally-passive sedentary activities".