Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

*Watching Television causes a LOSS of SOCIAL INTERACTION …
An experiment carried out by researchers at the University of New Orleans measured the
social skills of first graders in relation to how much or how little television they watched.
After controlling for a range of other variables (including sleep, time spent with peers and
family, parents’ educational levels, etc.), the number one determinant of social skills was
how little television the child watched. Basically, those children who watched the least
television had the best social skills.
“The more entertainment television you watch, the less civically engaged you are …
[Initially], you don’t know which caused which; whether people decide to drop out and
are left with television, or whether they start watching television and then drop out. [And
yet] the evidence is clear that television is actually the cause of this.” ~ NPR’s “All
Things Considered”
To sum it all up in a nutshell: watching television makes you lonely.
*Watching Television causes a LOSS of WILLPOWER …
It has been found that watching television produces a physiological feeling of calm that is
quite addictive. And yet alongside this false sense of peace, watching TV also makes
viewers passive and unfocused. Interestingly enough, a recent study found that, while the
sense of feeling relaxed dissipates for viewers once the television is turned off, their
feelings of passivity and lowered alertness continue. Survey participants consistently
reported reflect that television somehow absorbed or sucked out their energy, leaving
them feeling depleted and befuddled.
“After playing sports or engaging in
hobbies, people report improvements in
mood. After watching TV, people’s
moods are [often] worse than before
[they started watching].” ~ Prof.
Robert Kubey (Rutgers University)
To sum it all up in a nutshell: watching
television makes you weak.
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