The reason television is so popular today is that it is mindless entertainment. You are entertained by it without having to actually put forth any real effort. You get something for nothing. Its much easier to watch television that pick up a book or a ball and entertain yourself with your own energy. Children begin watching television before they know what it is and form a habit of expecting gratification without working for it. The reason that people prefer television to watching the Nobel prizes is that it takes effort to understand what people winning these prizes are doing and how it effects us as people. Watching something that keeps your mind occupied is much easier. Television is steering people as a whole away from working to accomplish things. People are much more likely to give up when doing anything becomes hard. Video games are popular because of the same notion. In a video game you can be a racecar driver, a soldier, or a pro athlete simply by turning on a game system. It lets you do things that normally would take a lot of training just by hitting the right combination of buttons. People are becoming more and more plugged in to technology, and more reliant on the ease of it it as well.
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