Distracting Yourself to Death

Channel surfing your way through life

When I was a kid, I read A LOT of comic books. As I got older, I got out of the habit, although I still read an occasional graphic novel and enjoyed the wave of superhero movies that surged into the theaters over the last decade until the quality level went downhill. Well, somehow I got signed up for Quora Digest which regularly emails almost hypnotically intriguing answers to questions about superheroes like:

Who is the most powerful villain in Marvel?

Who is the scariest comic book villain of all time?

Can the Hulk drown?

Who is stronger and tougher in Marvel comics, Luke Cage or Colossus?

If you used to be a comic book junky, these are fairly interesting bits of knowledge and theoretical questions. In fact, if you’re not careful, you can very easily spend 20 to 30 minutes just surfing from answer to answer.

It’s kind of like “channel surfing” used to be on TV before we got Amazon Prime, Netflix, and all these other services that gave us more control over what we watch. You’d sit there, k…