"If you want more finger-pointing nonsense while our nation gets run into the ground, keep watching. You can blame George Bush or liberals to make yourself feel better, giving yourself a good excuse to continue sitting on your butt staring at a box.
But it doesn't change this reality: that life is not a Hollywood movie. One of the main ways TV addiction affects the human brain is to make it think that everything wraps up in a happy ending, as all movies and shows do. It convinces people that no action need to be taken about anything, that anyone who is complaining or making an issue of something is the problem, that anyone who would take any action - other than TV watching - in response to anything is problematic and insane, that nothing ever really goes wrong, that if you just sit there and don't get too upset or mess with things we can all just stay comfortable watching our TVs, happy and basking in the blue light glow.
The world is real, the cancer deaths from pollution are real, the deaths in Iraq are real, the deficits are real, the fact that we get no vacation is real, the fact that we are virtually all dangerously overweight and getting diabetes by the score is real. And the fact that you have spent an enormous portion of your life staring at a box is real.
TV causes obesity, anti-sociality, lethargy, and a skewed view of reality that borders on insanity. It causes psychotic detachment from the people and the world around you and the inability to respond to life-threatening situations that are immediate and present dangers in your life. "
http://www.moderateindependent.com/v3i6tv.htm
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