Television

I was reading the sidebars in our text book and I was taken back when I read the one New York Times 1939 quote on page 321.  It says, "The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued to a screen: The average American family hasn't the time for it.  Therefore the showmen are convinced that... television will never be a serious competitor of [radio] broadcasting."  This was written way back in 1939.  My thought was, "Yeah, why do we spend so much time watching TV.  We complain all the time about how we don't have enough time for this or enough time for that, but we can sit down in front of a TV screen and do absolutely nothing for an hour-long show!"  Just think about all the stuff that we could accomplish within the nine years straight we spend in a lifetime just sitting in front of that stupid screen.  

I find our link to television really disgusting, especially being that we learn so much from it.  There are some really good, educational shows on it, but we hardly choose to watch them.  Instead, we watch action films with a lot of violence, causing us to act in a violent way.  It also introduces stereotypes, which we all say are bad in the real world.  The fact of the matter is, we are wired to learn from what we see and if we are watching TV, we learn bad things.  I say that we shouldn't watch TV anymore.  Ya, right.  We have become accustomed to it.  It is now a form of relaxation.