Yep, it will subvert mainstream thought every time. When I was seven (1978) our tv gave a puff of smoke and quit, we didn't have another until I was in tenth grade. Over that time I read more than two thousand books. I'd go to the library every two weeks and check out my limit of eight and usually be looking for something else to read by middle of the second week.
I blame that period for my never adopting hero worship, or being a pop culture maven. I like what I like, because it speaks to me, I think literature taught me that. Nice post! Thanks!
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Wow, @markrmorrisjr! two thousand books?! That's impressive. I have found that television is not a very good way to develop your imagination and critical thinking. It's too one-sided, whereas books allow you to swallow the information slowly to ingest the information properly.
Well, I was a kid, had to have something to do and the internet didn't go public for another 20 years!