In recent years, especially is the United States; laziness has become a growing epidemic. One of the causes of this plague is television, a box that captures our full attention without fail. People become obsessed with the lives of celebrities, imaginary love, wars, and luxuries. Televisions, today, detracts from the thinking process; it does this by distracting people from their responsibilities, it slows the search for information, and draws people into materialistic society.
By appealing to the viewer through theirs emotions, television draws people in so that they forget their duties. Programs are packed full of action, previously unknown sites, drama, and more either desirable or horrific worlds. These soap operas, sitcoms, and other shows spark our curiosity, makes laugh or cry, and they even relate to our everyday lives. Yet, when people succumb to this brainwashing entertainment many things can become neglected, and they are left as unsocial zombies glued to a glowing screen, wrapped in the lives of others. It has also become a habit for some to schedule duties around their favorite programs, detracting from time in which they could be getting things done, such as work, exercising, or reading, actually using their brains. Some people have even been known to drive recklessly just to make it home in time for a program, neglecting their duties of the road and endangering everyone around them. Television fills time that could be used to exercise your brain, find a hobby or learn something new.
How will anybody learn anything new if the initiative and common sense hasn’t been taken to find that information? Even the search for new information has slowed because of television. People no longer have to use reason and time to find the things that they need, it’s all just laid out for them and yes there may be some beneficial points to this, but through the process of finding information people learn things they didn’t expect and develop skills that will help them in life. Instead people lazily through themselves in front of a glowing box and loose all interest in what they could learn or have learned, and just open themselves up to commercials and things that stuff our brains full of the things we think we need.
These “needs” are crammed into this country, so that citizens change their values from accomplishment, wisdom, and happiness to money and beauty. Our society is full of advertisements and forms of subliminal messages, which make the majority of the population, believe that they “need” objects, money, and sex to fill our desires. Though these shallow requests look good on the surface, what people are forgetting is the way that the accomplished obtain these things. Accomplished people didn’t obtain these luxuries by watching them on T.V., as civilians do, they got them by thinking about the specific things that they wanted and more importantly figured out the way they were going to go about to get them. Society has all these primitive values that in the end bring nobody satisfaction and irrationally outweigh the nation’s intelligence and general thinking process. That’s exactly it, people aren’t really thinking so they continue not to think; people just allow themselves to get wrapped up all of these materialistic possessions that truthfully holds no significance, resulting in the irresponsibility and stupidity of America.
All in all television does detract from the thinking process because it doesn’t require you to think. T.V. is just there, a short lived happiness nothing substantial to offer. So when you reach for the remote and turn on that monitor next ask yourself, “Is this helping me, couldn’t I be doing something much more productive?”
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