Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

Remember, addicts of any sort should not be forced to choose between their addiction
and its healthy replacement, and TV addicts are no different. Especially for children, such
a choice is painfully difficult and often inspires rebellion. Just as no heroin is available
when addictions experts offer their subjects methadone, so too should your television
magically disappear (or better yet, be disabled) in anticipation of any of the abovementioned
family activities. It can then magically reappear (or be magically re-enabled)
when no such replacement activities are scheduled.
If you choose to engage this option, remember to move your TV (or disable it) when your
children are not present. Nothing need be said about its absence unless the children notice
and ask, when a brief “We don’t need it right now, so I put it away” will suffice.
If you are single or living in a partnership without children, then the only real solution to
your television addiction is to DESTROY YOUR TELEVISION … period. Gradually
limiting your watching, moving your TV to a secluded spot in your home, &/or vowing
to only watch certain types of programs at certain times will still see you wasting many
priceless hours of your precious life.
Remember, your television is not your safe haven;
Your television is your prison …
… and it is time for you to SET YOURSELF FREE!
“Breaking the television addiction requires making a courageous choice … Watching TV
fills the mind with the images and the beliefs and the agendas of others. Not watching TV
fills the mind with freedom. ” ~ inspired by an unknown
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