by Lam Luu

Created on: September 15, 2008

Everyone should turn off their televisions, and read, more. TVs are evil. Sorry, my bad, the TV itself is not evil, but the contents are. We, as people, are being used, over and over, by TV programs, advertising, movies, etc. without even knowing that we are used! TV strips us off our guard, and stick the information, regardless if we have time to consider it, straight into our brains, and enslave our morality. Hence, let's turn it off, open a book, or surf on the internet and write/read a blog. It is way better, safer, and more civilized.

Let me start off by noticing that TV programs are not always evil. Frankly, those educational programs are just phenomenal. You can spend ten pages describing how beautiful a polar bear is. You can include a hundred pictures. However, you cannot compare such work with, say, 10 seconds of polar bear movie. Their clumsiness, their idiosyncrasies, their shapes, all of these are capture on the screen, allow us to see and study creations far far away from us, and admire the wonder of our Creator (Whoever that Creator is). Or, a report of poverty is no opponent of a short documentary movies about poverty, in which we see people hungry, deformed, and harassed. A thousand words are weaker than an image; a thousand images are weaker than 10 seconds of movie. Yes, TV can be good. It just happens not to be.

TV strips us off our natural ability to filter information. Why do we need to filter information? Because the information can be wrong. For example, someone may say that a good is excellent, and that good is actually trash. As a human, you need to consider if information is correct. Upon receiving a piece of information, we would use facts and data that we know to check the new information. If we realize that there are data against that information, we can either find out more, or just throw the information away. For example, a dealer would try to convince us that his used car is perfectly fine. We would surf on the Internet, and find out that the car involved in some accidents. Of course, we refuse. Consider this: what happen if the dealer could stab right into our brains with information, and bypass our defense?

TV rips through our reasons and consciousness, and stick information, unchecked by us, to our brains. How? Like this: to survive, our brains have a mechanism to handle critical information. For example, when the image of a car flashes in our eyes, our consciousness and logical brain stop working; our instinct take over, and

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