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T.V. The Family Drug
Television is something of a drug that the American family is addicted to. It is used to treat hyper kids, fatigued parents, boredom and to much free time. It side affects include laziness, loss of thinking power, and greater emotional distances from all human beings. These are the basic reasons and affects of television and it is clear it is negatively affecting American family life, but television isn’t the issue it’s why we are asking for a prescription to drug that we know is bad for us. Television is a means to keep family distant but it is not a reason in and of it self, the problem lay with us.
Most of us most likely grew up with one or more televisions in our house, and were raised into our television addiction, as perhaps were our parents. However as with all things there must be a beginning. Television came in with the American dream in post world war two. Yes, two cars in every garage, a TV in every home and all the convenient appliances you could want. Everyone hear the American dream and everyone believed in its’ materialism bring happiness because if you didn’t conform in post war American you were weird and an outsider. Eventually the 60s came and people started question things again, but it was to late and television had attached itself the heart of the American family life.
Putting it origins aside there are more modern reasons for our attachment to television. TV has at this point become part of the American culture. If your five year old goes to kindergarten and doesn’t have anything to say about “Sesame Street” they end up the odd kid out. TV is also the modern babysitter, with more single parents and households with both parents working its hard to resist just setting them in front of the TV, especially when the news makes you to scared to let them play outside unsupervised.
And kids aren’t the only ones. Adult also may look strange if he isn’t up to date on the latest television drama and even stranger if he doesn’t have a television. TV has because such a major part of American culture it is difficult to be without it.
We know how television came into the body American household, but how did it multiply and spread to every component of the household. I believe this lies in the problems with our materialism and our individualism. We as a people, though not all of us like to have many possessions and like to be rather dependent. Sadly this lead to more televisions in more rooms. At first the TV at least keep the family in one room but now mom watches in the kitchen, dad in the living room and Jr. in his room.