I suspect that many people who enjoy television, if asked, would claim that socializing with freinds or other things are somehow better or more pure, but only because TV is a low status medium, and so saying that watching TV isn’t “real living” has become somewhat of a cached thought within our culture; I’d suspect you’d have a much harder time finding people who will claim that spending time enjoying art or reading classic literature or other higher status fictional media doesn’t count as “real living”.
I suspect that many people who enjoy television, if asked, would claim that socializing with freinds or other things are somehow better or more pure, but only because TV is a low status medium, and so saying that watching TV isn’t “real living” has become somewhat of a cached thought within our culture; I’d suspect you’d have a much harder time finding people who will claim that spending time enjoying art or reading classic literature or other higher status fictional media doesn’t count as “real living”.