I unplugged my tv and put it away

I unplugged it!!Yes I did!! And I am feeling good about it...cuz it's like any otehr addiction but nolonger will I be a tool for the corporate bullshit that is all that tv stands for. It is power for everyone but the watcher. It is manipulative in SO many ways and it's TOXIC to have in your home. Knowledge is more powerful then tv. You can get the real truth elseware without the commercials inserted and the brain damage. Sounds prety self explanitory to meeeee....so I unplugged it. You should too!

 

thats cool.... i always found music to be way more entertaining and mind expanding than tv.

 

Other activitis take more money to get into so think T.V. is a good pass time.

 

tv is not a good passtime. while you sit in front of the tv you are being desensitized and somewhat brainwashed with a mass of people by corporations. they know how to get you to buy things how to watch and they know how your brain works so that they can insert images and messages into your view and you don't even realize how much crap you are taking in. then subconciously you buy the products they sell to you that are not good for you. you pay monthly and then you buy their products...you keep them in business.

 

Yes it is. it makes you use your imagination.

 

I agree, everyone should not only unplugg their tv, but throw it out the window or sell it at a pawn shop to buy a better stereo!!!!!!! TV is the highest form of corporate coruption bullshit, its so addicting too, people are wasting their lives in front of the couch becoming slaves to the tv. Yes i know they abolished slavery over 200 years ago but now they don't call it slavery, they call it TV!!! Everyone will eat it up, if its packaged properly! Fuck TV!!!!!!!!

 

If you can get addicted to TV then you must have a feeble mind. TV is for enjoyment, with the same advertisments you would see if you were driving down a highway. And when all you conspiracy freaks get together and make it seem like corperations are trying to control our minds, thats when we need tv the most, so we can't hear your bullshit over Family Guy.

 

A fucking men... TV's no more brainwashing then any of the other mindless crap you can do to pass time... movies, music, books... everyones always trying to sway your opinions all the time, and its obvious to most of us, and irrelevant if we have a small amount of self control.

 

i only use my tv for movies. there's no other useful application for a tv. except when i let it collect dust.

 

Abso-fucking-lutely.

Y'know, all this anti-TV crap is just mindless propaganda that makes TV out to be evil as though it's a thing in itself. It's not. It's a medium for the distribution of moving images and sound. TV programs or advertising might be bad in specific cases, but TV can not be said to be bad in and of itself.. Well, unless you subsribe to the theory that its generates harmful radiation

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but in the UK there's a whole lot of informative stuff on TV. Sure, most of it's crap like anywhere else, but then I don't watch the crap. I use my TV for watching movies on DVD and for watching specific programs that amuse/inform me. And guess what I do when the adverts come on? Yeah, I change channels/switch off the sound/talk to my girlfriend. Radical, huh?

TV is a powerful tool for communicating information and entertaining. If you exercise some discretion with how you employ that tool, then it's a wonderful thing. If you're the sort of dumb fuck that gets brainwashed by the corporate shit that's on TV, then when you switch of your TV, guess what? You'll still be a dumb fuck. You'll just get brainwashed by something else.

 

This is one of those things that you have to really WANT to understand. Obviously people are just so into sitting down in front of the thing to even bother. And that's fine for you. As for me and many others( not enough of others) it is no loss to us to turn the dang thing away. It's not about paranoya its about knowing how your brain works and caring what gose into it.

 

I feel sorry for them. But that's what you let them do.

 

That's an incredibly arrogant and patronising statement, to assume that those who hole a different opinion to yourself are incapable of understanding how their brain works. Some of us are actually capable of watching the programs that we opt to watch whilst being aware of the flaws of the medium, thus avoiding 'indoctrination'. I question everything I see on TV. But then I question everything I read as well. Why's watching an educational TV program any different to reading an educational book?

 

Reading a book and watching tv are two different things. Reading causes you to use your imagination. There are plenty of other things that make reading a good medium. It's not arrogant to assume that people are too lazy to want to bother to learn why tv is bad for kids. It's totaly obvious. It's not just bad for kids. I'm sick of trying to explain myself to people and I'm not going to anymore...It's jsut how it is. I'm sick of corporate manipulation of mass populations of people of all ages and so I choose to boycot tv and what it stands for and that's what I'm doing and it's good for me ( not the only change for the better im making in my life but this is what the thread is about) and it's good and works for my family. I didn't say people who think differently don't know how to know how their brain works. But when you do know about these things it does help understand how tv effects you and you begin to realize that it's not such a great thing. All I was saying was that most people don't care. And you have made that clear. That's fine for you. Good.

 

You didn't read the question properly. I asked why is watching an educational TV program better than reading an educational book. I didn't refer to entertainment.

Did I dispute that reading was a good medium? I read more than I watch TV, and always have.

Perhaps you're not making yourself clear. By 'people' do you mean society at large? In which case I'd agree. Or do you mean people participating in this thread? Also though, you've only just introduced kids into the equation. If the question's "is TV bad for kids?", then I'd be more inclined to agree. I don't think it needs to be bad for kids, but that would involve a level of supervision that I'm not convinced is any longer practical in society.

Well that's pretty much the definition of arrogance. "I'm right and you're wrong and I've no intention of explaining myself"

That's not a subject for debate. I've no idea what's good for you, so you mat well be correct. It's not good for everyone though.

Hello? Did I say I didn't care? Did I say this issue isn't important? Did I say TV isn't a medium of propaganda and control? Clearly boycotting TV hasn't done much for your ability to focus on the written word and understand the opinions that other people are expressing.

 

DoktorAtomik :You didn't read the question properly. I asked why is watching an educational TV program better than reading an educational book. I didn't refer to entertainment.
no you said
Why's watching an educational TV program any different to reading an educational book?And I said to that Reading a book and watching tv are two different things. Reading causes you to use your imagination. There are plenty of other things that make reading a good medium.

Did I dispute that reading was a good medium? I read more than I watch TV, and always have.

Perhaps you're not making yourself clear. By 'people' do you mean society at large? In which case I'd agree.

I'm not talking about people on this forum. I am talking about societe. I'm not into personaly attacking people I debate with online

Or do you mean people participating in this thread? Also though, you've only just introduced kids into the equation. If the question's "is TV bad for kids?", then I'd be more inclined to agree. I don't think it needs to be bad for kids, but that would involve a level of supervision that I'm not convinced is any longer practical in society.

Yup. And that's why as a parent I have taken that on and got rid of the tv. You can monitor all you want but it's still the fact that its beign watched at all. Its not good for brain development. and its not good for societe in too many ways. It's just not beneficial to have around.

Well that's pretty much the definition of arrogance. "I'm right and you're wrong and I've no intention of explaining myself"

I'm not here to explain myself. I can go on for pages about the effects of tv on the brain and why it's bad etcetc. But if you relaly want to know you can do the research yourself. I'm not going to spam the board with links and cut and paste all the info I have. If I did that everyone would just bitch anyways or no read it. I am entitles to my own opinion which seems to bother you for some reason...
That's not a subject for debate. I've no idea what's good for you, so you mat well be correct. It's not good for everyone though.

Not once did I say that it was good for everyone.

Hello? Did I say I didn't care? Did I say this issue isn't important? Did I say TV isn't a medium of propaganda and control? Clearly boycotting TV hasn't done much for your ability to focus on the written word and understand the opinions that other people are expressing.

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Well i am normaly online during most of primetime TV (thankfuly) ... during the week.. i get home in time to catch a film or the sanitized bullshit repetive news *sigh* and then i am feeling sleeply...but wait this is when TV is getting good...educationional/informative news/documentaries / comedy (thats funny) its a gold mine...thing is i can't stay up till 3 in the morning to watch all the marvelous output UK TV is capable of.

 

"You should too" is a ( ment to be)suggestion. As with any other suggestion you can choose not to take it personally.

 

But this is only salient if we're talking about non-educational material. In the example that I cited, imagination isn't required. If we're studying factual material, then that's exactly what you want: the facts. And TV is inherently no better or worse at presenting this information than a book.

I agree with you right up until the last sentence. I have no kids. I watch only specific TV programs. I never watch adverts. I never just sit in front of the TV out of boredom. So to say that "it's just not beneficial to have around" is a massive generalisation that simply isn't applicable to everyone.

Look, this may come as somewhat of a shock to you, but you're posting your opinions on a public message board. By doins so, you're inviting debate. Otherwise, what the hell's the point of posting them? You're entirely entitled to your own opinion in the same way that I'm entitled to disagree with it. If you don't want to discuss the issue then you're kinda in the wrong place.

But you did continue to say that. In this last post you said " say that and youIt's just not beneficial to have around". Perhaps you meant "It's just not beneficial FOR ME PERSONALLY to have around." In which instance that's fine, but it isn't what you said. I have no problem with you deciding that TV is bad for you personally, but you've made a lot of generalisations in your posts which imply that it's bad for everyone. It isn't. If you can agree with that point, then we're good Oh, and if you want to say TV is bad for most people, I'd agree with that too

 

so you basicaly agree with her...gee whiz