On average children watch 5 to 6 hours of television a day and adults that are working approximately 4 hours. Our minds are conditioned in such a way that most children and adults can’t live without television. Since the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the fascination of most children have been TV games by Nintendo, Sega, Play station, Xbox and other computer games that have been developed to entertain and occupy the time of children and adults.
The minds of people from childhood are conditioned and molded to think and act in a certain way because of television and these games. We are made to think, act and behave in the way recommended by these instruments and what we think is what we do.
What we do inculcates who we are. For example a 13-year-oldChinese boy was arrested in 2006 for murdering his grandmother and two other relatives after apparently being influenced by detective dramas and gangster films.
According to Chinese media, the boy learned how to kill and dispose of bodies by watching TV. He allegedly strangled his cousin and killed his aunt and grandmother with a knife. This story stirred up concerns in China on the influence of violent television programmes. We are therefore what we do, the more we repeat certain the behaviors, the more we will portray that behavior in our lives.
It's scary what influence television have on people, I don't find tv to be entertaining anymore. Everything is about deception, violence and nothing really that will build our nation.
ReplyDeleteTelevision has such a huge impact on society its not even funny...they manipulate us in believing what they want us to believe.
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