I Got My First TV At 39 And Now I’m Scared of Everything
6 min readDec 8, 2020
No wonder everybody is so anxious all the time.
I grew up in New York State near the Canadian border on a road so rural that cable TV wasn’t even an option. Instead, we had a giant metal antenna balanced precariously on the roof of our house. When we wanted to watch a show, my dad would climb up a ladder and swivel the antenna around until a fuzzy picture emerged on…