That must be bad for one's emotional constellation and the one of others around.
In this way people become more and more like cage chickens. They get there dayly portion of sensational experience and contacts, while sitting on the sofa inside their living.
This goes the more for children, who from their first days on are torn away from their own small world into a big one, they naturally couldn't see at all at such a low age. Their developement is constantly disrupted by the sucking appeal for their attention and sympathy of producers and presentors of programs, disigned for this end by most sophisticated specialists.
Like that they're prevented from uninterruptedly being busy discovering and experiencing the things and persons, that are around in reality. So they grow up to be like greenhouse plants, rooted in a block of substrate in stead of becoming fully developed and ripened persons, rooted in the full natural ground of Earth among all that's apon it.
Television should be no more than an information medium during no more than one hour a day. No fiction, no nonsens, just worthy objective info, fitting for all ages.
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