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Repost this!!!!

I'd like everyone to participate, as a social experiment. See how you feel after just ONE week, beginning this Wednesday.

Isn't there something wrong with the world when we wonder what's happening to fictional characters throughout the week? Isn't it wrong when a Sunday night cartoon on Fox is important in our life? Isn't it wrong when there are so many experiences to be had, but we just can't be bothered with real life because we're sitting zoned out in front of the tube? Isn't it wrong when we're away from our techno-universe and we begin to panic? The next generation won't even know the joy of building mud pies and creating cities of legos or playing telephone with a papercup and a string if we don't do something about it NOW. We let things slide, we procrastinate, we just sit there zombified in front of this little box, watching the little world within, while the real world and our real lives go ignored. TURN IT OFF FOR JUST ONE WEEK! And pass this on to your friends and definitely to your children! Get your coworkers and your classmates involved as well!!!

Go swimming, go camping, have lunch with an old friend or write a letter to your grandmother. Just LIVE and stop procrastinating, and remember the scent of flowers and what it's like to feel your toes in the summer lawn.

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Why you should pass on that post..

When I was in second grade, a teacher asked the class
"Out of these three things, which one can you live without. Water, Food, tv"

I raised my hand and answered, "tv" and the girl next to me said "water", and when the teacher said I was correct, the girl said "but you can't live without tv! you can drink lots of things besides water!"

I knew at the time I was right, but being a child, what was going on of course didn't hit me. I still remember that to this day though, and now I can reflect on how sad it is. That we live in a world where children think they CANNOT live WITHOUT television.

What about games, and art, and all these things that help raise healthy, rounded, creative children that can think for themselves? Our inventors, our storytellers, our innovative thinkers, they're all being controlled by this box. This box that tells them to buy Nike, buy Pokemon (you gotta catch em all you know!), buy brand name cool, without it you're nothing. Is that the generation we want? We can already see it. People speak in pop film quotes and use celebrity catch phrases, and they don't even KNOW WHY THEY ARE DOING IT. They just know that they are.

They're watching something but they don't know what. They get the sensation of just seeing an event, but they don't know what effect it had on them. Where did reality end and television begin? People recall characters from shows they watched 20 years ago as if they are long lost friends. So where is their life. What are their memories, and where are their real long lost friends? Do we really all have the same history? We will if we're all living in the tube....

Did we go to high school with the Beverly Hills 90210 gang and did we do coffee on the couch with the group from Friends? What about nights out with YOUR friends, instead of nights in all comfy and warm with the Fox lineup.

Do this for yourself, your family, and your future family. TURN OFF YOUR TUBE.

Reclaim your mind, reclaim your life, and get the corporate bastard's hands out of your pockets and out of your brain.