Comments on: U.S. Senate Committee on Aging Addresses DTV Switch Affecting Seniors http://www.agenotes.com/aging-process/dtv-seniors-46.php A Blog Discussion About the Aging Process and Anti-Aging Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:22:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Carol Webb http://www.agenotes.com/aging-process/dtv-seniors-46.php/comment-page-1#comment-40 Carol Webb Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:49:53 +0000 http://www.agenotes.com/aging-process/dtv-seniors-46.php#comment-40 As a baby boomer, and remembering the first infant steps of the box in the living room, I wonder why any importance at all is attached to watching television. In some ways it would be better for society if they were unable to access television. In one night's viewing there are many programmes softening us up, so that we will accept the life that we see on this instrument of hypnosis. The soaps give us violence and relationship disharmony, the news is nothing but misery and violence. Drama, is just that, the victim, helper, persecutor story worked over and over again, and comedy tells us that it is really funny to deride other people and their ways of living. There is of course the superb wild life and nature programmes...oh and the weather forecast! As a baby boomer, and remembering the first infant steps of the box in the living room, I wonder why any importance at all is attached to watching television. In some ways it would be better for society if they were unable to access television.

In one night’s viewing there are many programmes softening us up, so that we will accept the life that we see on this instrument of hypnosis. The soaps give us violence and relationship disharmony, the news is nothing but misery and violence. Drama, is just that, the victim, helper, persecutor story worked over and over again, and comedy tells us that it is really funny to deride other people and their ways of living.

There is of course the superb wild life and nature programmes…oh and the weather forecast!

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