Seriously, folks, just turn it off. Do yourself a favor and read a book. Or have more sex. Or both. i recommend de Sade for the newly weened. Really gets the old juices flowin!

I find it sad that an article has to even be written on this, frankly. Every time I turned the stupid thing on I saw Kristol, O’Reilly, McLaughlin, and countless others warning me about the leftist movement out to brainwash me. It wasn’t until I stopped one day and noticed that they were the only ones on tv talking that I realized it had to go.

Oh… and there was that sex thing…

I’ll never go back!!

So are you saying that young folks who watch too little TV may be susceptible to depression, detachment and shiftlessness?

First, it seems to me that these symptoms are plenty prevalent in the TV-watching population, too. Second, what about in the time before TV? Were the young people of, say, the 19th century more depressed, detached, and shiftless than they are today? That seems unlikely on the face of it.

In my experience, a brain, left to its own devices, does not tend to tackle concepts before it is ready to. It is much more likely to turn away from concepts it doesn’t feel ready for, and live in a ‘fantasy world’.

When given enough time to reflect upon itself, the mind will slowly come to realize that there are some concepts which one must grapple with in order for one to truely find themselves. Questions on mortality, the purpose of existence, states of reality and delusion, et cetera. It takes the mind years of maturing to even be aware of such concepts. It takes longer to formulate the questions which deal with such and even longer to answer them.

Television, as has been stated, stifles the thought process. This includes minimizing the ability for self reflection. This leaves the mind immature and unable to be aware of, let along ask or answer the above concepts. The danger of cutting out tv lay in that once it is removed, the amount of time the mind spends on self reflection increases exponentially. As for the concepts noted above, the mind develops these concepts at a pace quicker than it can mature. The result is the pondering of such questions well before one is truely ready to ponder them. The results may include depression, detachment and shiftlessness.

This isn’t scientific, but its happened to me and a couple of other who also kicked the habit later in our lives. Either way, it was a great article to read and its nice to know there are more and more folks out there who abstain from tv.