Is TV destroying us?

Funny you should ask, let me turn it on and find out :confused:

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Chavez apparently uses it to control his peeps. :funn:

What will I watch tonight now that it's the summer? 😱
Nope, no anxiety here.:pissed: Don't know what you're talking about?:idontno:

When I was growing up, family vacations were spent at a cabin w/ no television and limited radio reception. We spent our evenings/down time talking, reading, or playing cards and board games w/ our parents, grandparents, and cousins.

With the exception of football playoffs and the Superbowl, no television was allowed when there were guests over.

Occassionally, if we rented a family movie it was allowed for us to eat dinner in front of the TV, but still as a family.

During car trips we were entertained by travel versions of games, books on tape, and car games. Plane flights involved card games and quiet versions of car games.

Now it seems that the TV is everywhere - people want them in their kitchens, bathrooms, holiday bunkrooms need to have internet access and cable, and cars and boats have dvd players to entertain the kids when they are on the move.

Too much water can kill you too. How do you suggest solving the problem?

Is overconsumption of water a major problem in the US or did you just get tired of arguing about Iraq?

Is overconsumption of water a major problem in the US or did you just get tired of arguing about Iraq?

:floor: gem of the day

I stopped watching tv in the early 80's, so hopefully it won't destroy me.

When I was growing up, family vacations were spent at a cabin w/ no television and limited radio reception. We spent our evenings/down time talking, reading, or playing cards and board games w/ our parents, grandparents, and cousins.

With the exception of football playoffs and the Superbowl, no television was allowed when there were guests over.

Occassionally, if we rented a family movie it was allowed for us to eat dinner in front of the TV, but still as a family.

During car trips we were entertained by travel versions of games, books on tape, and car games. Plane flights involved card games and quiet versions of car games.

Now it seems that the TV is everywhere - people want them in their kitchens, bathrooms, holiday bunkrooms need to have internet access and cable, and cars and boats have dvd players to entertain the kids when they are on the move.

You're right, scooterbug44. Those were the days. When we actually had to speak to one another. We are spoiled. TV can be addictive just like this dern computer. Better sign off for now. Thanks gull! :wave:

Is overconsumption of water a major problem in the US or did you just get tired of arguing about Iraq?

I think that everyone else got tired of losing the argument with me. I don't believe the overconsumption of water is a problem, but I believe that overindulgence of anything can become one. My problem is when people start talking about problems, they like to look to the government to fix them. I'm just making sure you aren't won't be doing that.

]I think that everyone else got tired of losing the argument with me. I don't believe the overconsumption of water is a problem[/B], but I believe that overindulgence of anything can become one. My problem is when people start talking about problems, they like to look to the government to fix them. I'm just making sure you aren't won't be doing that.

:lolabove: ...6thGen, my friend...you have the ability to argue with a wall!

:idontno: ...and yes, overconsumption of water can kill you.

:wave: ...and that last statement...I suggest another message board. A true SoWaller helps themselves and others.

saying that TV is destroying society is an oversmiplification of the problem...it is but one rung in a very tall ladder.....:cry:
I've decided to add to this....it is a snowball effect...but the parents of this generation are allowing the degeneration of society....IMHO

Yes, Allifunn is correct. It isn't TV which is destroying us. We are doing it to ourselves, via lack of self-control and addictional behaviour. We are destroying our own children in order to maintain our own sanity. When my nephew was three, he could remove a DVD from the case, properly insert it into the DVD player, power up the TV, and he was good to go. Parents often use the tv as a form of a baby-sitter which is filled with information on which cereals have the coolest prizes and which toys are the coolest to own.

TVs are being created in the craziest of forms, and the tv as we know it will soon seem bulky and quickly go to the dumps. Check out this . We haven't seen anything yet. I'm sure that a substantial amount of the final cost of a tv comes from the shipping costs. This new technology will allow for the shipping costs to be almost nothing, as will the actual costs of the product itself. What if this is the format for a smart phone, which is really a micro computer, and the screen folds up into your wallet size, but can convert into a 20" screen? Technology is fascintating. TV shows are not so fascinating.

Yes, Allifunn is correct. It isn't TV which is destroying us. We are doing it to ourselves, via lack of self-control and addictional behaviour.

Gosh--that's scary. I'm glad that I spend hours on the internet instead of getting addicted to t.v...:blink:

Gosh--that's scary. I'm glad that I spend hours on the internet instead of getting addicted to t.v...:blink:

Don't think that I am not sitting in front of a mirror. ;-)

one of the best books I ever read. Suggests that the medium is un-reformable. I concur. It is always a race to the bottom on television. At least the internet goes both ways...

Amazon.com: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television: Jerry Mander: Books

Check out this super-thin, plastic, flexible tv screen.

we're all going to hell in a handbag...but this looks pretty sweet...😀

Interesting book, DanHall and I might read it, but I am passing that hurdle this week as I am once again giving up cable tv.

Speaking of reading vs watching television, check out this book, Why Read?, which I first heard about on a radio interview on NPR. I was fascinated by this author.

Here is a quick note regarding this book, from a reader:

"Reading literature nurtures our intelligence, our imagination, and our very soul. So believes Edmundson, a professor at the University of Viriginia, as so many great thinkers have believed over the centuries, writers Edmundson quotes with passion and expertise as he places literature at the very heart of a liberal-arts education, which he fears is becoming an endangered tradition. An eloquent advocate, Edmundson continues the invaluable refresher course on the significance of the humanities that he's been so ably conducting in Harper's magazine and in his previous book, Teacher (2002). Here he objects to the commercialization of higher education as students are recast as consumers and instruction is reduced to job training. Edmundson feels that students deserve, and need, more. He avers, "The purpose of a liberal arts education is to give people an enhanced opportunity to decide how they should live their lives" and that literature is "the major cultural source of vital options." Edmundson's many-faceted argument is forthright, rigorous, and inspiring as he convincingly links literature with hope and humanism with democracy."

Donna Seaman
Copyright ? American Library Association.