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by AJ Marsh
Television, what an amazing technology – a glass window into another World. Ever since the 1950’s, t.v. has captured our attention and our time. Anyone who wants to sell their product or point of view can not ignore the significance it plays in today’s World.
But … Can we get away from its grasp? Without it, many a person does not know what to do with themselves. Watch people when the power or cable feed goes down. An http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3385 has deteriorated as we have increasingly replaced normal human activities with channel surfing mania. The introduction of High Definition television sets have only increased this fact. A recent Simpson’s episode shows Homer substituting his daily responsibilities of Father, Husband and so forth for the pleasure of this new advanced entertainment. And we view this mockery as comedy? This should make you sick.I ask you to observe those around you as they watch t.v. the next time you depart for the ice box. Look back and watch the expressions of those watching. Do they look like they are full of emotion, thought, and ability? Or do they look like mindless drones? I would bet most of them look like mindless drones. How can this be healthy? What makes this even worse is the majority of current programs televised are utter garbage. No intellectual content whatsoever, especially children’s shows. At least in my childhood – the late eighties to early nineties – they talked about the environment or showed what an American soldier was supposed to be. Talking garbage, giddy flamboyant alien puppets, and sexuality amongst the little people are the norm today. It’s not innocent as it used to be. Flip to Andy Griffen on the T.V. Land channel and the flip to FX to watch The Shield. Both deal with law enforcement. Which one do you want to influence your child?
Now I call you to reduce your time, if not to totally rid yourself and your loved ones, of this parasite. Cancel your cable and you will not only bank more of your paycheck, but be much healthier because of this one action. Think of what awaits you. Think of how much time you can save. How much more you can experience.
Gradually start to pick up your healthy human activities again. Visit the library, become more involved with your family, go walking, hiking, biking, paintballing. Go visit that new park or that new hip restaurant down the street that you meant to take your wife to three months ago. Become human again. Read your news from different sources not from one televised news show. Play football, don’t watch some overpaid kid on the t.v. do it for you. Begin to make your own thoughts and opinions about everything. Don’t except what some show host says as your own. Are you really liberal because MTV tells you that you are? Because its the thing to do? Or do you actually think that way?
Discover who you really are, not what television tells you.