The Thing About TV’s
School is going to start in two days. This will be the last time I can sleep at six in the morning and wake up at noon. The moment we start classes, we have those two requirements I’ve mentioned already and I’ll have to stay late in school. I have soccer training on Tuesday, both requirements are due on Friday and I have cotillion practice every day until January 30. I don’t know how I can juggle all those on the first week, the rest are easier to deal with. So now I’m stressing, and still depressed over my imminent failure in Physics, so why am I still rotting my brain and degrading my eyes by watching a ‘How I Met Your Mother’ marathon on TV? Do not read any further if you’re not as fond of conspiracy theories like I and my two faithful readers are. Because, obviously, I think this is.
Media is one of the most debated on subjects. Is it good because of information dissemination and all that, or are they doing it wrong and influencing the children to become rapists, bank robbers and Superman? I support that media is good simply because I need my Gossip Girl fix every week and I can’t give up SpongeBob, but I understand the side of those who think TV and the internet poison their children’s brains. There are some programs which pass themselves off as innocent stuff but are really quite violent. Tom and Jerry, for example, is a well loved cat and mouse pair-up who try to hurt each other. The Power Rangers and the Justice League blow people up and Dora the Explorer is just so wrong. Violence is the main problem here and the use of common household objects to hurt others. I don’t mean that children are too stupid to see that it shouldn’t be done in the real world, just that there are neglecting parents who don’t bother to teach them that it’s wrong.
The TV is good because of its educational programs and also how to turn around immoral TV shows and movies. Instead of viewing it as harmful, we can say that it shows how not to act. Sure, enjoy the stuff they show, but not to the extent that you try it at home. Anyway, my conspiracy theory is lost under the discussion, so here it is. I have two, one involving the government and another involving inhabitants of the Earth before life was on it. Let’s get on the first one. The military is in need of child soldiers, imitating a crusade in the Middle Ages where children were led to battle, believing that the enemy would succumb to them. And it was mentioned in the Bible about how children are supposed to conquer everything or something like that. If children were turned into violent people controlled by TV and video games, then the government would have an unstoppable army at their disposal.
The other theory states that before there was life on earth, intelligent beings with a superior civilization and mental powers roamed the planet. The TV was their oracle and guide in everything they did, a connection to the gods, a demigod itself. This civilization flourished for a thousand years before a great earthquake that decimated their numbers and survivors were picked off by dinosaurs and other carnivorous creatures. The TV was lost in the earthquake, to be unearthed millions of years later to enslave the human race and restore the civilization that was lost. You see, TV station people are just actually being controlled by the spiritual essence of the demigod and are mindless zombies. So, be careful not to end up working in one, or at least try siding with the computer sciences people. It was a separate civilization’s link to the gods and it’s warring with the TV’s hold on mankind.
