If you watch TV YOU are the problem because:

I have to say, I'm not completely buying the whole evil television thing, even though I know that the news is only the news that the corporations funding the news want to allow, I don't think television could influence people that much if most of them weren't already programed not to be able to think for themselves. I watch a little comedy now and then and it's good for me to laugh a little, and I don't believe I am any more consumerist or any less anti establishment because of it, but then, I'm not someone who thinks that television has anything to do with reality either. It isn't just the TV to consider, but who's watching it. And yeah, computers are good....at least right now.

 

A poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti read on Democracy Now! (Pity the Nation):

Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation -- oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.

 

that must be a newer poem of his . .

is his still alive?

 

And this is why I refuse to own a telivision (;

 

The internet and telivision are completely different.
The internet is a (fairly) free forum of free speech and thought... the internet is huge and full of a wide array of websites you can look at. Virtually anyone can be on the internet and use and distribute knowledge on it.
TV tends to be watched by the FCC, who in league with the government choose which propaganda to spew out, and its pretty much on every channel.
At least on the internet you're free (so far)... probably not for long though ):

 

That's only because the majority of people can't think for themselves. If TV didn't make them stupid, something else would.

 

Wouldn't it be better the recycle them, rather than have TV's thrown all over the place?

 

Conglomeration is a bitch. Get used to it.

 

or how about the alternatives to TV... hiking, reading, writing, painting, drawing, sketching, sewing, walking, biking, sports, etc. do those make you dumb?