How much does television mean to you? Would you sacrifice your mind, your health, and your well-being just to keep a hold of it? Most people would. They are unaware of the severe effects that TV has on our lives and on our future. I think that television should be banned from all American households because of the negative ideas it exploits, the creative minds it destroys, and the growing amount of kids and adults that are making this place a bigger and lazier country.
             In the last decade, the amount of violence on television has greatly increased and so has the number of senseless homicides and suicides in our country. Now these may or may not be related to each other, but the promiscuity and violence shown regularly on household televisions has intrigued us Americans and numbed our sense of what is right and what is wrong in society. What shocked us at first has now become customary dinner-time cinema.
             In the last decade, the amount of violence on television sets in America, more and more young people have been robbed of their creativity. With TV, hardly anything is left to the imagination. Before the existence of television, all people were forced to create their own opinions and images of things in their own minds. But with TV, all the images are created for you and almost all the arguments are one-sided. With TV, you no longer create your own ideas; you are told them. An abundance of information pouring into a person's consciousness at a fast pace does not allow him to analyze and comprehend it properly. For example, let us make a comparison between reading and viewing. The pace of reading clearly, depends entirely upon the reader. He may read as slowly or as rapidly as he can or wishes to read. If he does not understand something, he may stop and reread it, or go in search of clarification before continuing. The reader can accelerate his pace when the material is easy or less than interesting, and slow...