More importantly, it is letting a dozen hypnotists in to your room, who are casting spells you cannot even see. They are making you feel physically unattractive, more lustful, more greedy, more resentful, less patient, less observant.
Have we all not seen the ceremony of the “ritual balancing of opinions”, where the two alleged sides of a controversial issue are represented? And have not the more perceptive among us realized that vast tracts of possible analysis have been ignored entirely?
When my children were young, we spent huge amount of time on the couch together watching TV. I’ve seen Mary Poppins at least 30 times, and was a huge Veggie Tales fan. But we were together, and as appropriate I would comment, making it a learning tool.
And neither of them got anything meaningfully electronic until they were 12. I watch the zombification of our youth, and it is small wonder they can’t think. Our only hope is their passionate attachment to freedom, of at least some sorts.
My youngest was complaining of boredom six months or so ago. I have told them since they were little that only boring people get bored, but I got an Xbox (for me) and Kinect. The Kinect remains unused. What I found was if we make enough trips to the library, boredom is not a problem. Quite literally, I cannot get my youngest to stop reading long enough to play video games.
I try not to lecture, but no doubt I do it constantly. In my mind, there can be little doubt that the presence of TV’s in most all of our childrens bedrooms from very early ages plays a role in losing emotional connection within families, in cognitive and emotional shallowness; and it very effectively allows the distribution of various propagandas, most notably the consumption ethos, the latent appeal to authority assumption, and the notion that “sex” matters more than the capacity to exist.