You want real social capital to impress your friends and colleagues? Read a book. Turn off the television.
I’m serious. You could watch another weekend marathon of Seinfeld to learn all the silly jokes, or rent every episode of 24 and barricade yourself in the family room, or download every Breaking Bad show to get caught up. You could become hip by learning all the character names of The Big Bang Theory or find out what the acronym NCIS actually means.
In the end, you’d have a few moments of shallow entertainment and a bit of wispy social capital that …