Television re-wires your mind and alters your consciousness;
Studies find that children’s brains are not developing properly.
Steve Watson Infowars.com
TV turns you into a zombie.
While these words are more often
than not used as a tiresome metaphor to highlight how much crap we are forced
to endure on television today, they do in fact serve as a deadly accurate
literal statement.
Two separate studies this month alone have found that
excessive amounts of television, even if it is merely on in the background, can
detrimentally effect the development of children’s brains, to the point where
they struggle to socially engage when they become older.
Add to this the already extensively documented impact that
the television has on all of us, the power it has to literally alter our
consciousness and shut down critical thinking, and it is no wonder that it was
long ago dubbed the idiot box.
As reported by Reuters this month, researchers from the
University of North Carolina Wilmington, found that background noise
emitted from television is so distracting and mesmerizing to children that it
is impacting their ability to interact with other human beings and potentially
slowing down cognitive thinking and language development.
The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that
children in the US are now exposed to more than five hours a day of television.
Matthew Lapierre, who led the study, explained that children who are subjected
to the most TV spend less time interacting with other children and parents.
Lapierre also found that younger children are subjected to
the most background television.
“This is a clear
warning signal to parents that if they are not watching TV, they ought to turn
it off,” said Dr. Victor Strasburger, a pediatrician from the University of New
Mexico in Albuquerque who has previously studied media exposure among children.
“It is also a reminder that parents should be avoiding screen time in infants
under two.” he said.
“It’s confusing for
babies who are trying to get their language together to have indistinguishable
voices in the background.” Strasburger also noted, telling reporters that when
parents bring their children to him, he can tell which toddlers are over
exposed to TV.
“The babies that are
being read to are just chattering away, and the babies that sit in front of a
TV are silent,” he said. “It means their language development is threatened –
they may catch up, but it’s a concern.”
In a separate study, doctors at the Royal College of
Paediatrics and Child Health in London found that children born today will have
watched a full year of television by the time they are seven years old. The
study also found that on average children now spend more time watching
television than they do in school.
Dr Aric Sigman published the study in the Archives Of
Disease In Childhood, a medical journey jointly own by the British Medical
Journal group.
Sigman noted that such extensive exposure to television can
lead to a void when it comes to social relationships, can lead to attention
deficit problems, and can promote significant psychological difficulties.
Sigman also noted that over exposure to new technologies
such as 3D televisions and consoles could seriously affect the development of
depth perception in children.
The study recommends preventing children under three years
old from watching television altogether, and says that all children should be
limited to less than two hours of TV per day.
“As health risks are
reported to occur beyond exposure of two hours of screen time per day, although
the average child is exposed to three times this amount, a robust initiative to
encourage a reduction in daily recreational screen time could lead to
significant improvements in child health and development.” Sigman noted.
In 2010, another study published in Pediatrics, found that
during analysis of over 1,000 children between the ages of ten and eleven,
those who spend at least two hours a day in front of a television screen are 60
percent more likely to have psychological problems than children who spend less
or no time. The study also noted that even children taking part in physical
activities but still watching TV are still fifty percent more likely to suffer
problems such as hyperactivity, difficulty with peers and friends, poor conduct
and antisocial kinds of behavior.
A combination of four studies, published in the Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology, concluded that television shows can instill a
sense of belonging in viewers with low self-esteem and a lack of social
relationships. Referring to the notion as social surrogacy hypothesis,
psychologists at the University at Buffalo and Miami University, Ohio, found
that in order to fill the emotional void of social deprivation, some people
forge relationships with fictional characters in TV shows.
TV really is the opiate of the masses.
Of course, what I describe here is only a snapshot. We are
today bombarded from all angles with distractions, substances, and conditions
created to transform the way we interpret our reality. We are being conditioned
from birth to act increasingly without consciousness; the one thing that sets
us apart from every other living thing in the known universe. We are literally
being programmed into a waking sleep, a zombie-like existence. We must act
vigilantly and educate others if we are to break this programming and preserve
our humanity.
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