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 Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:36 pm Post subject: TV-B-Gone restores civility? |
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This appeared in the Rocky Mountain News yesterday as part of an article about reigning in technology to restore civility in human actions.
| Quote: | Television. Television is the great dynamo of incivility. It destroys conversations by bombarding us with distracting images and sounds. And TV is nearly omnipresent, showing up in restaurants and even emergency rooms - places where unmediated conversations were once considered a priority.
What to do? Turn off as many TVs as possible and see what happens. When associating with others, don't depend on the TV for stimulation. (What's on TV is usually pretty uncivil anyway.)
Instead, enter into the lost art of conversation that honors the thoughts and feelings of others. Eat at restaurants with no TVs. Purchase a TV-B-Gone, a universal remote control that turns off many TVs. I once zapped nine public and unneeded screens in one triumphant weekend. Some civility was restored, and the beast, while not disarmed, was incapacitated for a season. By the way, there are far better sources for finding out what is going on in the world than TV, such as magazines, newspapers and the Internet.
This only scratches the surface of civility. But think on this: If you apply the Golden Rule to matters of noise, speed and television, your life and the lives of those around will surely change - and change for the better.
Douglas Groothuis is professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary and the author of Truth Decay. Reach him at www.DougGroothuis.com.
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see whole article here:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_3978800,00.html |
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