An Argument for the Elimination of Television

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Jerry Mander, in his book Four Arguments For the Elimination of Television explains the unnatural and negative effects of television on the human brain.

What’s the matter with our

modern, technologically based society anyway? Why isn’t it more satisfying? Why do so many of us now feel that some vague something hounds us and diminishes us and makes us into something less than we should be? Most specifically of all, do we really use television — and so many other “benefits” and “tools” of our technological age or — does it use us? Jerry Mender speaks the unspeakable and asks the unaskable in his remarkable book ” Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television”. 

Effects of Television on the Human Being

Television technology produces neurophysiological responses in the people who watch it. It may create illness, it certainly produces confusion and submission to external imagery. Taken together, the effects amount to conditioning for autocratic control.

  • Published on Jul 1, 1979
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