I wrote and deleted a longer diary on this topic. I got too didactic.
I am sure I am not alone in tv channel hopping and encountering the following mess.
( I've been laid low by the smoke of the Station Fire in L.A. and its affect on this COPD sufferer.. and hence, too much tv.)
Whether we excelled or leaned towards the sciences or the arts, the practical or the theoretical, I hope our educations led us to demand and expect some respect for the essential differences between fact and fiction, the proven and the unsubtantiated, the possible and preposterous.
So let's be brief.