In my sophomore year of college, I realized just how disgusting the TV habit was. I had been out of TV-watching for almost four years at that point. I was in a dorm room with a roommate who had sports TV on literally every minute that he was in the room, and I began to understand just how much time and mental energy that habit consumed. Looking back I also now see how destructive it was to any higher level of consciousness. I think TV-watching mostly fits in the levels of apathy and fear--apathy because you don't care about dealing with the real world, fear because many programs focus on fear-oriented news/problems/issues.
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Originally Posted by alsy  If I had a strong focus on a particular character in a series, It would have an influence in my being. |
I found the same thing with video games. Most heroes from the games that I played when I was younger were loners, social outcasts, and pessimists...and guess what kind of person I was in high school and early college?
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TV, video games, movies, and Internet... What would it be like to live completely apart from the world's media culture? I sense a 30-day trial coming on...