Hello. Do you watch television? Every day? And by so doing, have you become a thick, desensitised and easily fooled ga ga brain?
Maybe you are ashamed of your stupidity. Worse, maybe you have watched so much television you are no longer capable of feeling shame, your emotional circuits degraded to the point where spontaneous feeling no longer arises within you. Instead you endure a never ending stream of bogus thoughts and feelings, each one carefully placed within you and reinforced continually by the miasma that is broadcast television. Worryingly, you are not alone.
Of the addictions, television is amongst the most subtle and devious. Alcoholics live in denial. TV addicts are worse for they do not acknowledge that a condition called TV addiction is even possible. “How could it be?” they mutter “for is not TV smashing and super and fun and marvelous and can I not turn it off whenever I see fit?”. If only it were so.
For most people in the west TV is the only form of information they partake of and consequently they can no longer think. And, as any fule no, thinking is the hardest work known to man. Or was. The great mass of people are in such a compliant non-thinking mode they no longer know that a condition called “thinking” is even possible. TV does all their thinking for them and my, what a deep thinker it is.
But consider how good TV could be. Consider how magnificent would be our lives were we to be offered a TV diet designed to enhance and improve us, as opposed to our current fare which degrades, destroys and demeans the values we hold dear. Patience in abundance may be needed though before those days arrive.
So what cure? Abstinence would be for the best. That is total abstinence. No TV at all. If the mere thought of that sends a shudder, no matter how slight, through your addled system, then you’ve just met your nemesis. No doubt going cold turkey like that would be too much to bear for most err viewers. Together however we can conquer mountains and possibly TV too. So a thought to leave you with.
Once a month, say the first Tuesday, we designate as worldwide NO TV day. From there it would be a short stepping stone to once every other week, once a week and so on. People could talk to one another, sing songs round the piano, love one another. And no doubt some TV executive somewhere, with his or her eye on the main chance, could make a TV documentary about it and show it on NO TV day too.
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