
I brought this up with a coworker the next day, and honestly, they challenged me on it. They asked if this wasn’t exactly the problem – were we all just too glued to TV? I started to wonder if I was using these shows to avoid dealing with what was really going on, like letting a crisis happen right in front of me. My colleague didn’t think we should be finding humor in shows like Steve Carell’s; instead, we should be out there protesting and making our voices heard. It made me think – maybe these shows feel good because they’re distracting us, and maybe that’s actually making us less engaged with what really matters.