What I Learned from Television

TV has taught us much. I keep in mind the days when folks used to call it the “idiot box” and studies were conducted regarding how it makes kids dumber. Folks who loved to observe TV were routinely criticized and made fun of as if we were a bunch of unlettered idiots. But I browse books too and I love watching TV.

There is a lot of I have learned from TV and I am not talking regarding Discovery channel here. When you are watching TV, your mind is primed for learning. This technology has not been used for a lot of sensible so far however principally for propaganda purposes.

This explains why folks learn additional from watching Animal Planet then they do from their high faculty Biology textbooks and additionally why the history channel is attention-grabbing whereas history category is boring. Individuals are just better at learning once they don’t assume they're being taught anything. This additionally explains how TV was used as a propaganda tool in the center of the twenty th century. From telling folks that sure medicine cause insanity to inflating the specter of foreign invasions, TV has been employed by governments as a learning tool all over the world. You bear in mind Reefer Madness right?

But that is only one example. There are many others that I can’t bear in mind off the top of my head.  Anyway, these days you never hear anyone calling Television the idiot box anymore. That negative attention has not gone to cell phones and video games.

It is unfortunate and hypocritical for individuals who were routinely subjected to being the worshipers of the idiot box by book lovers now become the oppressors. These are the same individuals who blame cell phones and video games for “unruly” kids these days. Therefore to all or any of them, I wish to say please reminisce to once you were younger.

But this is often nothing new. The older generation has invariably been hypocritical. Proponents of free love in the sixty’s are the very same people who have become half poopers in their previous age. They can tell you that they need grown up and build better decisions.

As several people will tell you, cool folks become lame after they become older because they get a sense of knowledge and responsibility. I'm here to inform you that age is not the identical as wisdom and someone will not make better selections just because they mature though older people may claim otherwise.