A man once said, "Televevision is candy for the mind." He was right.

Making
an analogy to candy is ideal ; either, if taken in excess can have a negative
affect on the human. At one point or another you watched too much TV. And
at one point or another you ate too much candy. Maybe it was on Halloween or
Christmas...it doesn't matter. The point is that both are a treat if taken in
moderation.

The problem is , nowadays, too many kids are watching too much tv, and too
many people are eating too much fattening items like candy. THere's more fat
people waddling around and more kids believe the stereotypes that the media
has provided for the ever stable database of memory in their heads.

When a child is born in a society so motivated by technology and television,

what other choice do they have but to watch television? The babysitters use it
as a means to make their job easier (though I could not agree more in that case)
parents so they can calm their kids down, and adolecsents because they want
to watch something or are bored. Most of the time, people my age will watch
TV because they are bored. When in doubt watch TV.

The problem with the excessive viewing of TV is that it is decreasing the

amount of thinking done by people ; children especially. This scares me seeing
as children are easy targets ; vulnerable , impressionable, and naive, they are
the ideal targets. Watching mindless shows like Power Rangers and Beavis
and Butthead, children are becoming more and more unlikely to really think.

Books and complicated plays make people think. Poems make people think.
Television, on most occasions, does not. The reason for this being because our
society is a lazy one, and a corrupt one at that.