Imagine that you"re in the mid 1950's and you"re walking past a store window and you see a reasonably small, funny looking box sitting in it. You go inside and ask about it and find out that it is a Television. With this device you can view shows from around the world, but this device won't really take off until the early 60's, when such shows as American Bandstand, the Addams family, and the Three Stooges arrive on the scene. Shows like this would forever change the face of TV.
The Television has been known by many names, but the boob-tube is probably the most well known of them. This name is probably derived from the fact that it makes people total boobs. This has been a fact since the first episode of the first sitcom, and will be true until the last TV show has ever been shown. This is why there is such appeal to it, you don't have to think, and you just know that everyone hates thinking. In fact, there is only one problem with not thinking; the fact that your brain slowly dies of atrophy!.
Over the course of about ten years TV went from having 5 channels to having about 20 different channels. This large jump in amount of channels led to a more diverse viewing field which made more people come over "to the dark side." The more people watched, the more money the broadcast companies had to put on more shows that the public would watch, a vicious growing circle of stupidity. To say that I don't watch TV would be a complete lie, in fact to say that I"m against TV is a lie, all I"m saying is that we could live without it, but I won't.