I readily admit to being a TV junky. I first truly admitted
my problem when I chose to skip Physics class for an episode of The People’s
Court with Judge Wapner. At one point, I took all of the TVs out of the house
for a year. It was liberating but I did bring them back in. Thankfully, I
resisted the temptation to put a TV in my kids’ rooms. However, I am a slave to
my own bedroom TV. Yesterday I watched an HBO documentary on childhood obesity.
It said that studies now show the link to obesity and television viewing is not
so much because we are couch potatoes but mostly from the commercials we view
telling us to eat more crappy food (my paraphrase). What do you watch on TV? If
you tell me the programs you choose to watch, I can tell you a lot about what
you truly believe and your priorities. Does your viewing list reflect how you
really want to be now? Someone I know says, “garbage in, garbage out” is really
“garbage in, stays in.” TV gives us many of our opinions about the world around
us although we don’t like to admit this is true. We can change our perspective
by changing the information we allow into our minds. I stopped watching so much
one-sided inflammatory TV and I think I am better informed as a result.
Interesting.
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