What has television done to my generation?.
There has been no generation that has needed a revolution more than mine. We generation Y"ers are the most repressed generation that has been raised in the United States. After reading the various great philosophers, some with great ideas and some with hairball ones, I find the same clear message. This clear message I speak of is that my generation needs to have a revolution to save the future of our species and if we fail to do so the Earth will be doomed. Unfortunately, my generation will not make that move to save their lives, and I know why.
The first point I would like to make is that if we as a generation cannot organize, then we cannot have a revolution. When protests against the war in Iraq were held, I looked to those who spoke all day about "how horrible those republicans are" and "why can't we all get along." When it came time to take some action, however, in those same individuals I found a higher amount of excuses to get out of making a difference than the amount of statements that they had about what they believed in which means that they do not truly believe in those causes, but only say things for acceptance and to go with the flow. This trend of going with the flow is very common among people of my age and going with the flow is taught on television. .
For nearly an entire generation of people to turn out to be different in only their physical features, there must be some crazy influence to make them all cookie-cutter in that way. What I find the most interesting in these people is that they have no idea, or don't believe that anything is wrong with the ways they act. The method used to create this mentality is to make them believe that everyone else is doing the same. The way this was implemented was by playing on people's insecurities which causes them to believe that everybody is judging them and that if they do not perform in a certain manner, that they will be considered weird or outsiders.
One of those things that we all have grown up with is television, or as most people call it, "T.V." People sometimes ask the question, "What is the good in television?" ... If you honestly think about it, it's really hard to picture life without television. ... The biggest thing on television surely has to be entertainment. ... Another great perk about having television is education. ...
Television has now become the leading vehicle for disseminating information to Americans. ... One researcher noted that a child's television experience, or the amount of time a child spends watching television, has some effects on his or her brain development (Winn, 1977, p. 46). ... Winn believes that the problem is not that children learn about sex by watching television but that viewing explicit or violent acts on television conditions children to deal with people as if they were on television screen (Winn, 1977, pp.73-74). ... The problem of too much sex on television has been furt...
In the mid 1940's, America was introduced to the home television. ... People began to rely on television for their news and entertainment. ... Television also provided people with a new source of entertainment in television programming like CBS's I Love Lucy and NBC's The Aldrich Family. Television connected Americans as they sat around their television sets watching The $64,000 Question on CBS. ... Still, television and newsprint are in most people's rotation. ...
Television has had a big impact in mass communication over the decades. ... The television probably would have progressed a lot faster but early television had problems to oversee. ... Social Issues Diversity in Television During the early years of television leading black performers were restricted to stereotypical roles. ... Recent television has dominated by news magazines. Cable television matured around the late 1990's which allowed people to watch a better variety of television programs. ...
Television advertising is not the sort of thing you watch television for. You watch television for insightful, entertaining television programs, not for nerve-straining irritating ads. ... But I am not alone in my anti-television advertising movement. ... To conclude, television advertising is a blemish on the entertaining nature of television in general. ... Television commercials are largely ignored, blatantly out of context and overall, an repulsive frame to the awe-inspiring portrait that is television. ...
Some people watch television because they want to be updated about what is happening in the world. ... Nowadays, not only adults and teenagers, but also children, get hooked on television. ... Television causes trauma on children, otherwise, desensitization. ... People also say that television can make children be aware and exposed of the real world. ... Violence already cannot be prevented on television programs that is why watching television is bad for children because it causes aggressiveness, trauma, and desensitization. ...
Television advertisements take advantage of children. ... That is what television advertising has done. ... For example, Hannah Montana is a big show on television. ... Kids want them because they see them on television. ... Today, it is normal to see explosions on television. ...
Some people may ask if television is harmful to children. ... Watching television too much can show many actions from children. ... Parents and children can make watching television an activity (44). ... In some cases, television may have a negative impact on children. ... While they are still young, set guidelines on how much television can be watched on television. ...
Have you ever wondered what the effects of children that watch too much television would be? ... The process from learning through the use of a television has minimal advantages and many disadvantages, especially speaking in terms of teaching children resulting in too much time spent behind the television screen. ... Postman states, "This is why I think it accurate to call television a curriculum. ... Children who watch a lot of television have an increased risk of overweight. ... Children who believe everything that they see on television can be misinformed. ...
Even in the beginning of the life of television, certain individuals had dreams of making the television an "entertainment phenomenon". Today, with more than 1 billion television sets spread throughout the world, and an average of 2.84 television sets in each household we rely more on TV than any other communication device (Inventing Television, 1999). ... To understand the effects of television and sex on our society and on our growing generations we can examine what acts are actually shown on television, who watches what, how children and teens respond to television, how soap operas and ot...
