The Idiot Box
November 13th 2006 07:45
Being an avid TV watcher (I'd use the term "couch potato" but I'm too poor right now to even own a third-hand couch), it's always been a mystery to me how some people regard the television as the idiot box. Not just as an alternative term, but as a vilifying description of what I would consider to be one of the greatest inventions of our time. Right up there with toilet paper. And the remote control. Fire and the automobile are somewhere further down.
But these are the people who insist TV will make you dumb. It will kill off your brain cells. It will hynotize you into a zombiesque stupor. And my favourite, it will induce an epileptical fit. They'd much rather read, or knit, or play chess, or work on their hydroponic gardens. All perfectly mind-blowing hobbies, ofcourse. But why not leave the rest of us who love watching TV alone? Yes, we know TV isn't going to help us get a PhD. We know it's not going to get us on Oprah as the Hydroponicist Extraordinaire or as the World's Faster Knitter. Hey, it's not our fault something like Sudoku doesn't stimulate us
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But these are the people who insist TV will make you dumb. It will kill off your brain cells. It will hynotize you into a zombiesque stupor. And my favourite, it will induce an epileptical fit. They'd much rather read, or knit, or play chess, or work on their hydroponic gardens. All perfectly mind-blowing hobbies, ofcourse. But why not leave the rest of us who love watching TV alone? Yes, we know TV isn't going to help us get a PhD. We know it's not going to get us on Oprah as the Hydroponicist Extraordinaire or as the World's Faster Knitter. Hey, it's not our fault something like Sudoku doesn't stimulate us
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