Question 3: Television Revision

          Has television ever actually represent real life? Television was not made in order for a one to become more aware of their position in life. If television did represent real life, many of the shows that we watch today will be meaningless and boring. Barbara Ehrenreich is completely right about television being fake and unnatural. That is the point of television; to do unnatural things so that it may entertain the viewers.

          Television has always been a way for people to step out of the real world and truly relax and enjoy themselves. Television is a way to mindlessly and enjoy something. It also brings people and families together so that they all can watch a movie together, it takes no effort. My younger brother, every night watches a cartoon on television and eventually the family ends up sitting down and starts to mindlessly watch it together. The television brought everybody together in one area and allowed us to do something all together.

          T.V has provided all of us with information such as weather and news from around the world, it allowed people to spark up ideas through watching television. Not cartoons, but documentaries and the news allows our minds to grow in knowledge and be more aware of our surroundings. Business men for example need to know what is going on in stock and have to see what is going up and down. It allows people to know how much clothing they should wear before even going out of their home. The television has serviced humanity in ways that we do not even realize.

          Although television has allowed many to grow in knowledge, there are also downsides to it. It may turn and intelligent individual into an indolent potato. Even with this is consideration, television has done more good in society than harm. It provided entertainment, knowledge, and interaction. Television will only affect the viewer in a bad way depending on what the viewer watches and exposes him or herself to. It is one's choice to believe that television is unnatural and waste of time.

          It is our choice to be influenced by what we see in television. The television's soul purpose was to entertain and inform people about the world and their surroundings. One cannot blame television for causing people to be lazy, it is the viewer's fault for not being able to control him or herself.