Wasting away

I was listening to NPR the other day. (I probably log 4 hours of that station every day at work.) Someone mentioned that people watch TV because they are not as good as the wish they were at the activities that they are passionate about. This seems to be true, all the basketball players you see at the park probably watched the NBA playoffs, the punk skateboarder next door most likely will watch the X-Games, and women around the world who long for romance in their lives spend their afternoons watching soap operas. According to this, if the amount of television an individual watches is any indication of how much he or she sucks at life, my life is pretty much a complete waste.
However, many would agree that someone who is constantly exposed to the opera, theater, concerts, sporting events, and a wide variety of ideas is cultured. Conveniently all these venues I just mentioned are available through TV. So the more television that I watch, the more cultured I become. Therefore I must be a very well rounded individual. I might even call myself a renaissance man.