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I hate Television. Its all a time waste. I had TV as a child up until age 6 or so. My parents then got rid of it for some 9 years, and the devil has re-arrose. Watching the changes it has made on my family over the course of the year is horrifying. I feel like it is (rather slowly) stripping my family our connections to each other. My mom, dad, and sister have time set aside every sunday evening from 9-10 or so for Downton Abbey, a popular BBC drama. Whether she has homework or not, Danielle is allowed, even expected to come and watch Downton with my parents. I would say that they are legitimately hooked, and I do not see how or why they could or would be. Half of the time spent is filled with shitty commercials that nobody wants to see, while the other half is filled with a aristocratic British family running around in their tuxedos and fancy dresses trying to live their oh so challenging life (sarcasm on the challenging). My family can barely eat a whole dinner without disagreeing over something (usually due to my sister saying something bratty she picked up on from TV), it has come to be that 4 nights out of 7 we will watch “30 Rock” or “Frazier” with dinner, exchanging few words in the process. I HATE IT. It is disconnecting out family and we have only had cable for the past 2 years! I can only imagine what it is like for families that have had it from the start. My sister seems to think that her life is a god damned sit com, she just loves whipping out a stupid catty response that she picked up from some show, my mom can barely talk to her because of this, which is why MORE TV is played during dinner time (to avoid arguments). My mom loves to tell us about her “Wife Swap” show, where you basically see some ultra structured conformist family meet the hippy family, the new pairs of parents freak out on each other for a week, put up with each other for a week, and at the end of the two weeks, the parents all scream at each other for a bit about how “I’m right and You're wrong”. This is my moms “feel good” show and it pisses me off. Then my mom and sister watch the Kardashian show (I don’t know the name of it), which they have both picked up wonderful (sarcasm) habits from. They've both learned these real adult ways of dealing with their problems (from the show), which is understandable because my family is in a pretty similar situation to that of the Kardashian's right? WRONG.

The two things on TV maybe worth watching? the summer olympics, and super bowl commercials.

TV represents the complacency, lack of initiative, and desensitizing of humans, and I can barely stand watching it on my own, with my family, or with friends. People love it, I don’t. There are so many things to be done in this day, this world, this life, and where does TV fit in with this? nowhere. So let’s get off our asses and do something; if you really do need rest, take a nap or eat some fruit. TV will get you nowhere fast. and thats a promise.