I hate Television

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I really can't stand the medium. It just takes over everything in a household, the backlight is bright, its a surrogate reality, it wastes time, it causes sensory overload, its disposal and manufacture seriously pollutes the environment, it was initially employed to create consumer demand and to sell us s**t, its been a medium by which mythmaking,itself, has been outsourced to industry, etc etc.

As an Aspie, I don't think it really did much good for my childhood development. I repeated a lot of BS I heard in commercials, and half of my daydreaming was recall of things I watched. It highjacks creativity.For example. if I made a comic strip, I was always in some way repeating motifs or elements of stories I saw in cartoons or movies. I feel too that it makes people less genuine. How much of our behaviour has actually been conditioned by things we've seen in film? e.g. first kisses, response to crisis, etc etc. Are we even acting genuinely or acting how we think were supposed to act based off of this thriller or that romance? Whole historical narratives are forged through historical dramas and science fictions. There's a lot of power in this, and the medium allows for much of this to be subconsciously absorbed. In a book, ideas have to be laid out more consciously, but in video, so many things can be subconsciously inferenced, like lighting, dramatic music, camera changes, etc etc.

Its as if a whole industry has been developed to mine the depths of the human psyche, much like they would mine any other resource. They employ teams of psychologists to find out how to exploit peoples desires and vulnerabilities when making advertisements. I hate television, and if I have kids I probably won't own one. I might even consider not having a computer in the home too, since its now becoming almost an extension of tv or its second incarnation.

TV is akin to Vaudeville and will soon join it as nothing more than a footnote in history. TV has long since passed its heyday and is now in terminal decline. It no longer has any relevance at all to a lot of people.

I will always love tv and everything it embodies. Tv is the first thing I grew to love. Tv forever.

Pretty much this. I'll never understand the problem some have with TV. Shows you don't like? Just don't watch them. Not interested in TV? then don't have one. Problem solved.
Lots of TV shows from my childhood are good memories.
There are plenty of TV shows I don't care for, so I simply don't watch them. I have no lack of other things to do as well. For me TV is as welcome in its own right as computers, books and video games.

A lot of TV is admittedly crap, but what can I say... I love it. I love the good shows, and I even love a lot of the crap.

Yup, haven't had a TV in years. It's a big time waster with a very low payoff, IMHO.

Aren't you forgetting about the early use of state-owned TV as a propaganda medium? Specifically 1930's USSR and Nazi Germany. Sure, the demand-creation thing is also true, I'm just not sure which of the two came first.

I hardly ever watch TV anymore. On the computer too much. When I do have the TV on I don't usually pay close attention because I'm working on a craft or drawing or even playing my 3DS. That's the closet I come to multitasking. Sometimes I even read with the TV on, but if it's too distracting I turn it off.

But the commercials - aaugh! Sometimes I can't even enjoy the show because they come one very two minutes, are too long to sit through, and are too short to get a snack or a bathroom break. They are more obnoxious than ever. Funny how I feel all warm and nostalgic when I watch toy and video game ads from when I was a kid but most ads now just make me want to shoot the TV a la Elvis "This Show Ain't No Good" Presley on The Simpsons.