T.V. In the Home
I know many families that have a T.V. in every room and everyone seems to watch T.V. separately not making any kind of communication and even eating separately. Borgmann is right with how we should limit T.V. and get rid of excess T.V's in the home because the way America watches it is making families grow apart and not really paying attention to what is going on in each others lives. This is wrong to me because I feel like family should be the closer than any other kind of relationships but because of T.V. it takes away that time. It is almost like T.V. is becoming the family. We should be looking more around us and communicating with our families more because they are the people that will always be there for you, but if you don't have a close relationship then what are you suppose to do when you are in trouble? Does anyone else agree with me on this?
I definitely agree with you on this. Family relationships should be WAY before TV on the priority list. And think for most people they are. The scary thing is that it seems like TV kind of gets in the way of those relationships without us even realizing it, even though we believe that family is more important. We put a TV in the living room and flip it on thinking we're doing something harmless, but then we somehow get drawn into watching it INSTEAD OF being with our family and don't even realize what's happening. I'm actually glad that we've talked about this problem in class so that I will be aware of it and able to guard against it.
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