Friday, 17 February 2012

The time vortex of TV


It's been a long day at work and there's nothing more relaxing than watching that program on TV.  The program finishes and you think about going to the gym or doing the laundry but there' something else interesting on.  All of a sudden it's midnight and you need to go to bed.  Your evening has just been sucked into the time vortex of TV.  

Watching TV puts our brains in a relaxed, focused and suggestible state, as if we are being hypnotised.  That is why you get the compulsion to buy that piece of junk you saw on TV even though you know you don’t need it.  Want to reclaim the NOW?  

Turn off the TV.  NOW.

The news is depressing.  That comedy isn’t really funny, you just laugh because of the laughter track.  All TV shows are just give us insubstantial shadows and headaches.  

If you want to learn something, you’ll get more information from reading a book than by watching an ‘educational’ show.  Do something that will make you feel like you’ve achieved instead.  Read something, talk to a loved one (sitting in front of a flickering screen in the same room does NOT count), build something, do anything to reclaim your life.  NOW. 


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