Comments on: Switch Off Your TV

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sat, 20 May 2006 07:04:14 +0000

TV shows can be good, TV addiction is bad.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 20 May 2006 06:00:29 +0000

I think that saying TV is bad is quite a general comment. Watching TV is good if you watch certain educational programmes on channels such as the National Geographic, Discovery, CNBC Channels etc.

Sometimes, watching TV is also good to model the behaviour of people with certain desirable traits. Isn’t it not?

By: Kloudiia

Kloudiia — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:19:06 +0000

You know my take on turning off TV, don’t you Alvin? Since you have read my recent post on this subject as well

I can’t agree more that the gist of this whole thing is you gotta be in control of the TV, and not the other way round. It’s not a matter of vegetating in front of the TV, but more of how we control our time.

What I’d like to add here is that you do save time by fastforwarding the commercials, however, I realised that sometimes, there are real good ads running, that promise more than pure entertainment value. It may stimulate something off your braincell and sparks off some interesting thoughts. Good for those in creative line, I feel.

By: Alvin

Alvin — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:26:02 +0000

I watch it time to time too. I think the time away from it has helped me become more sensitive to it, because I do notice when I start to veg out. It’s easily confirmed when I realize my butt’s stuck to the chair and I have to quickly force myself away, and the less time I spend in front of it the easier it is.

By: James

James — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:51:05 +0000

I’m glad to see more people writing about turning off the TV. I’ll admit that I do watch it from time to time when I’m kind of brain dead already. I don’t have cable or satellite, and my tv is so small that it has earned the nickname, “The Midget.” I think people need to interact with each other more and stare at a cathode ray tube less.

By: Jesse Gardner

Jesse Gardner — Mon, 15 May 2006 11:49:47 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly. I wrote something similar, though not quite as indepth: http://blog.plasticmind.com/heart/a_pleasant_even.php