It's astounding how much people watch TV these days.  People have hi-def TVs, hi-def PCs to watch TV on, and have services like Comcast.  It isn't that bad to simply have these, but many people over use these a lot.  When a person spends more time watching TV than he does reading, writing, exercising, or anything of the like, that person declines.  His intelligence and fitness actually goes down.  It's happened many times, and I've seen it happen many times myself.

What's worse, however, is the fact that this is happening to children.  When a child is raised by the media, by our media in particular, he is being indoctrinated by all of the wrong ideas.  Fashion is more important than intelligence, sports is more important than common-sense or education, fast food is the way to go, etc.  Also, his political notions that he will have for the rest of his life will be greatly influenced by the corrupt politicians that appear on TV.  He won't listen to his parents as much as he should, especially when they tell him something that contradicts what he's heard on the TV.  In ten years, it wouldn't be surprising if we started running out of intelligent people because of this.  I wonder what our future in ten years will be like...