I remembered that I had had several other periods of little or no TV in my life and how little I missed it then. Its pull was stronger than conversations I was trying to have with the people around me. Instead of paying attention to the conversation, I was trying to watch the TV, and worse, I was resenting the interference of the conversation. Jerry Mander discusses just this effect in Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television . My experience is that television users simply don't want to hear it.
TV is their best friend, their babysitter, their community.
We are a society in denial. Few foundations, government agencies, corporations or other funding agencies are willing to foot the bill to do research or education on how television use effects us. Annamarie Pluhar, The Television Project , Silver Spring, Md Most of our contemporary problems stem from an errant culture - a culture which puts us humans at the top instead as one of many. I fear that until we see that our problem stems from a cultural arrogance, we will continue this preaching to the choir. And, the longer we continue our circular discussions, the closer the ground rushes up to meet us.