Turn Off Your Television!
A message from the White Dot International Campaign Against Television
The average American watches 4.5 hours of television every day.
You sleep for eight hours. You get up and work for eight hours. Come home,
eat some dinner and turn on the television. A few hours later you're getting
sleepy. Time for bed.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING??
We're not kidding. All those things you wanted to have in your life: passion,
romance, love, childhood, parenthood, adventureT when are you going to do all
that?
You're staring at a piece of furniture!
People on TV are not your friends. They're not in the room with you. You are
alone in the dark, staring at a plastic box. Think about it. This is like a
science fiction horror story; but it's really happening. People have stopped
living as humans and connected themselves to machines instead.
You're only going to live for 75 years, if you're lucky. How much time do you
have left? Enough to spend one whole day every week with fake friends,
watching their imitation lives instead of living your own?
TV doesn't give you experiences, it takes them away!
On your deathbed, what if someone could give you back those ten years of
television? What if they said you could have another ten years to be with the
people you love, find new people, do things differently. What would you say?
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