TV came along not too long before a really, really big crime spike in the US. One theory was that television presented a set of behaviors at my encourage crime. And then there were others that argued exactly the opposite. Human beings are always learning vicariously. More than any other animal we learn by watching what other people do.
Are we too busy watching Friends? Is porn driving us apart? And why did New Yorkers stop vacationing in the Catskills?
Take the Seven Deadly Sins survey: freakonomics.com/nsq-sins/