It has become the most powerful tool of our culture. It teaches us things we want to know and even about those things we don t want to know. It forms many of our perceptions of life. Be those perceptions true or false we tend to believe what we see and hear on the television.
Age has little to do with it.
It has more to do with the constant bombardment of TV foisted on us by our own family members and friends. I think if we were in their place we would do the same things as they are doing. We need to be entertained one way or another, and not very many of us know how to entertain ourselves for more than a couple of hours in any one day. I think too that we watch TV to be informed, to be entertained, to find out about current events, to keep up on the changing economy, the changing weather, changing trends, and so forth. However, I think that we must always be aware of the simple fact that what appears on the screen is not necessarily real or true, in fact, most of what you see on TV is an illusion created to manipulate you in some way or another to promote itself.