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TV makes you dumb. He said his pal was reprimanded by his superiors for typewriting plots and dialog that were too complicated and requisite too much of the viewer‘s full attention. “Boob-tube” is a pretty accurate nickname.

I heard this guy being interviewed the other day who said that his really goodness mate was a writer for a TV crime drama on a major network. In other words, make the plots and dialogs tractable enough to for a person to be capable of following it during washing the dishes.

Okay, so I cogitate that says it all. He was ordered to make his shorthand much below average complex dish-washing viewing. It is purposefully productive of for multi-tasking. A lot of mainstream TV is seriously dumbed down. I conceive that the longer I watch, the more of my brain matter is methodically extracted. In fact, I‘m watching TV right now as I sign this, seriously.

But does watching the boob-tube in reality make you short of intelligent? I sometimes get envisage the television set soundlessly and invisibly sucking brain cells and synapses out of my brain the minute I switch it on. TV oft distorts reality and manipulates meanings in a way that benefits advertisers. I guess this is just a fantasy, but I really do give credence to it does indeed make you dumber.

Ways TV Makes You Dumber

•TV puts you in a mild trance-like lot where your brain shuts down and is left unchallenged (I‘m pretty sure there have been studies that have shown that TV does have a hypnotic affect on the brain)

•It‘s a passive activity, non-interactive, so watching TV is something that is being done to you, not with you, again leaving you outright unchallenged.

•Watching TV takes time away from things that help your intelligence like talking with people or reading

•Television is intimately tied to advertising and consumerism, so the goal of most programs is to promote capitalism (through commercials and actual program content), and not to represent reality. Furthermore, and even more damaging is that this implies that if we are not currently satisfied or happy, then there must be something partial with us. Since we have a bent to give credence to what we see on TV , our minds are susceptible to being influenced in a way that benefits advertisers and promotes the goals of consumerism, which is oft at odds with intelligence.

•TV pushes upon us the apocryphal mindset that if we only buy a certain product or service, we‘ll be happy.

•In George Leonard‘s libretto Mastery, Leonard explains that TV shapes our meditative in a way that makes us that the outcome is more important than the process, that everything can be achieved, peremptory or wrapped up within a specified and short age or time. This is a horrible aspect of affairs, behind the scenes as the Buddha so elegantly put it, life is suffering. It works a little nonconformist in reality. This is a terrible falsification of reality. And most things that are worthwhile do not take a half hour or hour to achieve. Most things aren‘t black and white. So watching TV distorts our perception of reality, which makes you expensive intelligently equipped to deal with the veracious world.

•Here‘s an interesting tidbit of info from http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=805412: Scientists did a calorimetric test to determine might dispersion during the interval watching TV . He explains that both TV shows and commercials extant viewers with an unrealistic rhythm of life where a problems are encountered and then definitive by the end of the for sale or show, and that it is one climax afterward another. They found that on neutralize people watching TV consumed ten per cent expensive force than normal resting physical energy consumption. What they found aghast them. There is a plain explanation. That‘s right, you consume more power sitting there nothing than when you are watching TV . While fidgeting may be a major part of one‘s resting power use, wistful uses up energy, too. It seems that this is due to the concentration people exert during watching TV reducing the amount of fidgeting and random movement people do. So if you keep your body steady but try solving a differential equation, you‘ll very likely find yourself imprecation more intensity than pending sitting and nothing at all. The neurons in the brain aren‘t very advantage at holding their own keenness for long, so glial cells in the brain constantly exchange intensity to the brain cells, physical energy taken from the blood. We may lose at a disadvantage calories watching TV we‘re not using our brains to think, only to watch.

Unfortunately, watching television is so darn pleasurable. Of-course, TV excites neurons in the primary visual areas, but perhaps that‘s, on average, as far as it goes ;). It is a wholly passive endeavor where you don't have to lift a finger or move a synapse.. It is pure laziness. In all these ways, TV is truly like a drug. It allows you to close call life, avoid your problems and numb your brain. So he handed down a new law that I had to live by. And those who put people down for abusing alcohol or drugs but then go on to watch too much TV are being hypocritical.

I remember when I was a child, I was hooked on TV much to the chagrin of my dad, who is the brainy type and has always known the dangers of TV . Every time I went over my allotted 2 hours, he took .50 cents out of my allowance. I ponder it was that I was allowed 2 hours of TV a day and no more. I clearly recall how Stripes starring Bill Murray came out on HBO and everyone at college talked about it endlessly. I remember that we nevermore had cable my dad didn‘t want us to have even more temptation.

Child Development and TV

And I have a child on the way now. I felt so left out and deprived. In the latest study on the effects of popular videos such as the “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby” series, researchers found that these videos may be in action more harm than good. How am I going to manage and regulate his TV viewing? How should I? I recently read that Baby Einstein, a TV video series that is purported to be behalf for children‘s development is in reality bad for them. Led by Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. And they may de facto delay lingo development in toddlers. These products had the strongest detrimental do on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which vernacular skills are starting to form. Dimitri Christakis, both at the University of Washington, the research team found that with every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who in no way watched the videos. “These babies scored about 10% lower on vernacular skills than infants who had not watched these videos.” (from http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650352,00.html). “The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew,” says Christakis. Interacting with others helps toddlers' (and I suspect adults' too) development a lot more than passively watching TV.

My wife and I recently purchased a new 47-inch high definition LCD flat screen TV. Interactivity is paramount for the development of babies. It‘s like one side of our animated room has been transformed into a massive wall of entertainment. It is my new idol thing and it of course has formative me watch even more TV. It calls to me at all hours of the day and night and I can‘t get enough of it....'

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