h the eye requires and causes the person to be alert
and active. While a person is watching the TV screen, their eyes stop seeking out
information. The eyes stop moving and stare straight at the screen, and all thinking is
diminished, " and the longer you watch television, the slower the brain wave activity
(Mander, 201, 207). Pretty soon "television destroys the capacity of the viewer to attend
and decreases the general state of arousal, which prepares the person for action, should
its attention be drawn to a specific stimulus" (Mander, 205). After watching television
nonstop for long hours, a person ceases to respond to anything.
People also believe television is real. There is a growing confusion between
concrete images and imaginary images. " TV is becoming real to many people while their
lives take on a quality of a dream" ( Mander, 202 ). This is because television places
images into our brains (Mander, 216). Humans have not yet mastered the skill to
distinguish between real images and artificial images implanted in our brains, so we
subconsciously assume any image is real (Mander, 217), and we are confused between
the real and the unreal. "The image held in our mind produces physiological as well as
psychological reactions. We slowly evolve into the images we carry, and we become
what we see" (Mander, 219). If you watched a killer on TV countless times you would
actually believe he was real and without knowing it, s
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