A lot of (adults) on (Netflix) are just watching, wasting away.

A lot of (people) on (television) are just watching, wasting away.

So at the end of the day we learned that nothing ever really changed.

My mother objected to me spending too much time reading and not enough outside.

I imagine there were people in the stone age that objected to people wasting too much time near the fire and not enough fighting with sabertooth tigers.

Exactly that! When I was living on the street, we used to call the fire "stoneage-tv". Because the human brains have such a long history of staring "into" the fire, I have the mild suspicion, that reading on e-ink displays without a backlight might make it less likely to get lost in thoughts, than when staring on a "glowing" screen. Unfortunately the only competetive screens are still rather expensive (paperlike)..

..damn, I got lost in offtopic thoughts again! ; )

It's an interesting thought! If you had a Twitter account in your bio, I would have followed it.

I don't think a parent encouraging their kid to have a little balance in their life is necessarily a bad thing.