Adults shouldn't be watching television, they should be reading books.

Wait, that's 5 decades.

Adults shouldn't be reading books, they should be fighting in the war effort.

There we go.

It's fuckin' entertainment media, and it should be evaluated AS that concept. Entertainment media poses minimal societal gains, some marginal reductions in crime rate at most. But if you're painting with that brush, it's all or nothing. A Song Of Ice And Fire is some rape-fest fanservice shlock, in both its TV and book forms. Worse than most anime in that regard, I'd say.

So stop reading books, if they aren't technical manuals for tanks or mortars you operate under the government's rule. Because otherwise, they're pointless.