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Television hasn't been with us all that long, but we are already beginning to forget what the world was like without it. Before we admitted the one-eyed monster into our homes we never found it difficult, to occupy our spare time. We used to have hobbies, we used to entertain our friends and be entertained by them, we used to go outside for our amusements: to theatres, Creepy Crawlies on,Restaurants and sporting events. We even used to read books and listen to music.
All that belongs to the past. Now all our free time is regulated by the gobble box. We rush home or gulp down our meals to be in time for this or that program. The monster demands and obtains absolute vocal performance and event.
Whole generations companies are up to graphic cuts the telly. The telly is a universal pacifier.It is now standard practice accounts for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living-room and turning on the set button. It does not matter that the children may watch rubbish commercials or spectacles of sadism and violence so long as they are quiet.
A society is reduced to the conditions which are obtained in preliterate communities.We become utterly dependent on the two most primitive media of communication: pictures and spoken word.
Television may be a splendid medium of communication, but it prevents us from communicating with each other. We only become aware of how totally irrelevant television is to real living when we spend the holiday by the sea or in the mountains, far away from civilization. In quiet,Natural surroundings, we quickly discover how little we miss the hypnotic tyranny of King Telly.
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