[basscomm]

> Honestly, what's wrong with being well rounded in your entertainment?

Absolutely nothing. However, people are weird, and everybody is wired differently. Sometimes cutting out the thing completely is the only way someone can control themselves.

For instance, an alcoholic might not be able to moderate their drinking and abstinence may be the only way they can beat the addiction.

Similarly, someone who is addicted to television might not physically be able to moderate their television viewing, and it takes going cold turkey for a while for their brain to adjust and new habits to form.

I'd even go so far as to say that a large number of people addicted to television don't even realize that they're addicted to it. Over the last few decades it's become normalized and expected that Everyone (for varying definitions of 'everyone') has at least one television that's the center of their entertainment life, and every waking hour that they're home the television is turned on and tuned in to something. If it's not, then the person is weird because television is What You Do(tm) when you're home and not working.