Ah – but have you ever tried life without it? I suffered from severe depression up until the Jamie Thomas vs RIAA verdict about two years ago. Two months into my RIAA/MPAA boycott I found that I’d had become strangely content. I haven’t had a relapse since then. Now if I’m forced to watch movies for social reasons, I often find the underlying messages to be positively toxic. Television commercials are even worse. If I need to unwind I watch http://www.ted.com

I challenge you to go three months without mainstream media – then tell us how you feel.