I am happy for the few responses the post has received.
Over the years I have seen television morph into something much different then it's beginning and even those who do not watch television cannot begin to understand the effects it has had on us all.
There are a few visual essay’s that have come forward in the past to educate us regarding what has and continues to happen regarding the information we are fed. The movie Network comes to mind and a PBS documentary regarding Edward R Murrow.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmast.../murrow_e.html
But I continue to marvel at a film that drives the point home in a way that gives us the ability to see and understand clearly the inner nature of things. The movie is called Being there.
http://www.filmsite.org/bein.html
A little history:
In 1971, Jerzy Kosinski published the novel Being There. Soon afterwards he received a telegram from its lead character, Chance the Gardener: "Available in my garden or outside of it." A telephone number followed and when Kosinski dialed it Peter Sellers answered.
For years afterwards, Sellers would try to get this film made. "That's me!" he would tell people of the Chance character. He hawked the idea of a film to whomever he could find. Finally, in 1979, with the clout he had gained from the Pink Panther series, he was able to fulfill his dream.
What followed was the culmination of Peter Sellers' career: a masterpiece of double-edged satire on politics and television. But Kosinki's screenplay goes deeper than that. What he and director Hal Ashby expose is a self-serving and self-deceived society. Through the innocence of the Chance character, all the schemes and manipulations of the world are laid bare for what they are: pure folly. For those who hunger for the truths in life, this is a film that will satisfy your appetite.
My suggestion for those of you who are thinking individuals and are interested in what effect television has on people is get this movie.
I believe you will be surprised in that what it teaches is going on right under our noses even today. Let me know what you think.
BTW Wagner i believe your right "The internet is by far a worse waste of time then television."
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