Most normal people in the US do relatively little, and 100% of the variety in their (IMO) boring lives comes from television programming, hollywood big-budget movies, and sports.

Remove those, and it’s just the usual identical routine of work, alcohol, driving, grocery shopping, dealing with kids, and sleep. We don’t really have third places besides church.

(Instagram falls somewhere in-between, depending on whether you only follow the forty boring people you know, or choose to use it as an adjunct to mass media feeds to keep up on celebrities and bikini models.)

Sports provides a regular stream of relatively unpredictable events that someone in need of such can make emotionally relevant.