I Have Something to Say and I Want to Be Heard

Our modern media, be it T.V., cable, internet, whatever, has to much influence on society. It tries to tell us what to look like, what to wear, how to act, what music like, what to accept what to dismiss.
The great dictator, itvsets out to dismiss those of us with minds of our ownand who won't conform.
It convinces the weaker minded to spend money they don't have on things they can't afford to accumulate things they don't need
Then it tells this is how to be happy.

It makes strange across the world a tad more familiar, yet never to know them, never to meet them
Then it sets our neighbors, and friends and families, those right next to us, those we can touch and hold, and hug and kiss and love and keeps us as far as morning is from evening. I

It turns strangers into aquaintances, and our friends and family into strangers.

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twistedrope · 26-30, M

Maybe it has a tendency towards consumerism and physically attractive people. I think that infomercial channels are the scourge of the earth.
Most of the stuff on TV has existed for hundreds of years in other forms. Beauty in old photography, artwork and nude statues. Gossip and Playwrights have existed terribly for centuries. Terrible Playwrights!
And even that. Spending out of pocket has been the tagline for trying to look influential and successful. Just read any classic book like great expectations where they deal quite allot with mounting debts.

My point is, TV exacerbates bad qualities that have already existed but it's not forced upon you like in 1984. Give a margin for free will and let people adjust to advance technology.

Also. if you aren't making the best or at least using your time on the internet constructively to help you grow, I wouldn't be judging TV so harshly in your position.

Groofydorkgerdo · 56-60, M

@twistedrope:I concure totally and whole heartedly. that's kinda the point I want d to make, consumerism, I just didn't have the words to put my thoughts into.
These issues have always existed, and presumably always will.
It's just now, we have access to each and every one of these vices
At the touch of a screen, just a figertip away, or on a phone call away. The amount of access we have to them.
and the ease with which we can get caught up in them is alarming

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