I realized today what TV actually does for a person.
Growing up my OCD father always told me "No, TV rots your brain. You can't watch it. Your brain will rot. Simpson's will rot your brain. Your brain will rot if you watch it. That's why you're so stupid already." So i always settled for the fact that my brain will rot inside my skull. But watching it for the first time since I was young again tonight I finally figured it out.

We see how these people live inside the show. Careless or careful. Always with the external show of human emotion, human relationships, human activity. And yet the one thing they cannot show, is human nature and the depth of human existence. We watch these people on television everyday, and you can't even truly relate to them. What you see is smiles. You don't see the confusion or how they truly feel through a bunch of flashing lights and a glass cover to contain it all. We fashion our lives to fit theirs. We fashion our relationships to fit theirs. We idolize a fake world. That's why humans are so unwilling to accept change or difference, because not all of it can fit in a show. They can't show you the astral plane or a body of light through a camera. Therefore it doesn't exist to them. Why go out and find your own experience when you can sit down and watch other people have it?

TURN OFF YOUR TV'S TURN OFF YOUR RADIOS PUT DOWN YOUR GAMEBOYS. LOOK AT THE WORLD AROUND YOU THROUGH A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL'S EYES. DEMAND TO KNOW TRUTH, ARGUE WITH YOUR NEIGHBOR OVER POLITICS. BE THE CHANGE WE NEED.