8 reasons to stop watching TV

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Strange, but technology that could really serve to educate and broaden the horizons of people today is a sign of limitation and laziness. Freedom from the box is turning into a fashion trend that many people completely mindlessly try to imitate. Let's see what we really don't like about modern television and whether we need to radically say goodbye to it.

In the era of the emergence and first steps of television, many thought that this technology was the final chord in the development of culture. Experts did not doubt the imminent death of books, theater and cinema, and enthusiastic spectators sat in rows in front of television screens, the size of which did not exceed saucers. Much time has passed since then, televisions have acquired huge color screens, surround sound and the same image, but the planned death of all arts still does not happen.

Moreover, watching TV has become a sign of bad taste lately. Today you will not surprise anyone with the statement “I don’t watch TV”. Refusal to watch television even becomes a sign of a certain elevation, a sign of culture and the presence of intelligence. What's going on?

1. Television eats up your time

At first, viewers watched programs when they had free time. Then they came up with serials and the audience began to live when there was free time from the TV.

Different studies give us different statistics, but they are all equally terrible. A modern city dweller spends several hours a day watching TV, which is most of his free time. That is, the life of a modern person basically consists of three processes - work, sleep and TV. Great, isn't it?

Imagine spending 2-3 hours every day in the gym. Communicating with family. For an interesting book or writing a novel. For the development of his perpetual motion machine. Forget now. You will never do any of this if you are a TV addict.

By the way, don't you think that each new episode of your favorite TV series acts on you like a dose to a drug addict: it soothes the burning sensation for an hour, and then you already crave a new dose?

2. TV makes you dumb

Long-term excessive consumption of television depresses our brain. The complete lack of brain activity aimed at making decisions and creating, replaced only by passive consumption of information, turns a person into a plant. You can give a bunch of links to prove this statement, but it's better to just remember your condition after a long time sitting in front of the screen. Lethargy, lethargy, confused thoughts, drowsiness. TV zombie.

3. Television makes you worse

Modern producers have well internalized the idea that people are most attracted to sex, fear and greed and make full use of these lures.

Blood gushes from the screens, from voluptuous moans you have to muffle the sound, and millions of poor people are going to gawk at the rally of wealth.

Yes, on some channels there are still a couple of sensible programs, but they do not make the weather on TV and it is only a matter of time before their closure. Most TV content does not bring any positive into your life, but only awakens low feelings. Do you need it?

4. Informational overdose

We have already written recently about the benefits of the information diet. Television makes you more than just an information glutton, it cripples you. Remember how you sat in front of the TV yesterday and watched a movie, then a show. Advertising. News.

Each commercial break, each news release consists of separate short plots, separate stories that have been poured and mixed in your head. During the evening, you receive such a quantity of completely useless information that there is no place left for useful information.

5. Advertising

Pills, pads, beer, can, beer, soda, pads, beer, pills, cars, coffee, soda, supermarket, pads, beer, Nokia, pills … and again in a circle.

Aren't you bored?

Yes, I know, advertising allows you to shoot programs and show them to viewers for free. But what is happening now on the screen is already beyond this explanation. On some channels, advertising accounts for up to 50% of every hour of broadcasting. Watching an hour and a half movie turns into an evening activity, and the star show stretches until the stars appear in the sky. Is it too high a fee for the right to watch dubious programs?

6. Television makes you unhappy

Oh, these serials! For housewives - soap, for fashionistas - glamorous, for intellectuals - Dr. House and Explosion. You begin to follow someone else's life with curiosity, then it fascinates you, then it becomes a part of you. Other people's quarrels and truces, weddings and divorces, other people's thoughts and other people's feelings. And now the television heroine becomes dearer than a person sleeping next to him on a pillow. I think that if we devoted as much time to our loved ones as to moving pictures, then there would be an order of magnitude less divorce.

7. Television makes you poorer

The disadvantage of TV is not even that advertising forces us to buy things that we don't need. A much bigger problem is that you are completely unwittingly subconsciously imbued with the spirit of consumerism in the most unsightly sense of the word.

The blind pursuit of other people's values makes our wallets empty, but does not bring happiness.

The TV tells us that the level of a person completely coincides with the price of a watch on his hand, and that the most correct dream in life is the latest model of a car of a fashion brand.

8. Your life is more important than the broadcast schedule

Inveterate TV enthusiasts have long been accustomed to the fact that their lives are dictated by the schedule of television programs. If there is a favorite show on Wednesdays, then the walk in the park is postponed to another day. From Tuesday to Saturday there is a series of his wife - these days it is better not to roll up to her. While the commercial break has begun, you need to have time to quickly call your parents. It just becomes not entirely clear who is the master of your life - you or the program director of the TV channel?

So what to do now?

The purpose of this article is not at all to agitate you to completely stop watching TV and take it to a landfill. It is more important that you just think about what the TV actually gives you and what it deprives. After considering all the pros and cons, you must decide what to do for yourself. Perhaps some will not find it necessary to change anything, others will simply shorten the time they spend on TV, and others will refuse to broadcast and switch to watching only selected programs in the recording.