Let's hope this spreads
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Most of our problems stem from people that watch too much television.
You can say that again. And they don't even realise that it's brainwashing them.
I would never call out someone's grammar, but I do have to disagree with your statement of 'every 12 minutes'. More like every 7-9 minutes. Kek.
Ugh, yes. The commercials are a waste of time.
My grandpa called it the evil eye. He also said it would corrupt our society. He was right.
When you think about it, TV was new when our grandparents were young. My parents sat around and watched Tv all night, all day, everyday. It’s normal to them, but how when it was brand new to their parents? It has some kind of spell on people. I only watch what I want to, usually a historical documentary or a period piece. I really don’t know how people have a TV running in their home at all times. I am so glad it does not have a spell over me.
But I really like hearing Gordon Ramsey yell at people while I am doing chores.
they would sit around the radio listening before they had tv.
What's literacola?
Its grammar Nazi. Nazi is a proper noun.
The contraction for it is, has an apostrophe.
I gotta go, Sanford & Son is coming on...
You big dummy!
I used to watch a lot as a kid, but I always knew how full of shit and manipulative it was. Starting with ads from long before I knew anything about politics.
A healthy and well-raised person can watch as much of anything as they want without being influenced. People try to categorize new information based on instinct and feels too much, instead of just letting it sit.
"Oh, I've seen/heard/read about this thing but haven't verified it and will keep an open mind while looking for evidence in both directions." ^ What should be. School indoctrinates the polar opposite.
Great post.
Not sure it's my place, but if you want to make it even better trying to find and cite a research paper on the topics would help immensely (I need to do this more, memo to self).
Both for readers who are interested, and for increasing the quality of decentralized information flow. If one person digs up good sources and adds them thousands of people will save that work/time/energy for other things.
The more we cite and the better we argue the more people will stop seeing us as crazy conspiracy theorists and realize that this is much closer to science than anything they've ever seen on the media. It will also condition people into internalizing the necessity for high-quality and careful verification, make them more inquisitive, imaginative and creative etc.
This may be the study of monkeys learning from watching TV that was mentioned.
https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/wild-monkeys-learn-by-watching-tv/
Maybe that's a good thing that reality TV didn't exist when I was little and I knew everything I was watching was fantasy to begin with.
I originally got rid of cable to save money, but now that I think about it I started to change my thinking from more liberal to more conservative in the time after that. Maybe related.
AGREED!