One of the reasons that people may vote against their own interests is the popularity of Reality TV shows. We begin to exhibit symptoms and behaviors indistinguishable from what the real world would understand as a persecutory delusion. The closer to the truth we get, the crazier we seem, until we end up doing things like supporting a needless war that maimed and killed thousands of our soldiers.
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We keep hearing that we need to turn off the TV, get off the couch, and go outside and exercise. Anne Strieber’s diet book–which has been REDUCED in price to help YOU reduce–has a chapter about exercise titled "The Tyranny of the Body."
Research scientist Jaye Derrick disagrees: Her study found that watching a rerun of a favorite TV show may help restore the drive to get things done in people who have used up their reserves of willpower or self-control.
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Soon we will have TVs that we can control with a wave of the hand, but the Japanese are going even further: They have developed 3D TV that allows viewers to touch, poke or pinch the images floating in front of them (this may be especially effective when it comes to shows about aliens, which will probably become more popular in the future, since sightings are increasing exponentially).
PhysOrg.com quotes its inventor, Norio Nakamura, as saying, “It is the first time that you can feel images in the air. You can have the sense of touch like poking a rubber ball or stretching a sticky rice cake.”
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Using the television as a babysitter is a BAD idea: The more TV a 2-year-old toddler watches, the more likely it is that they will do badly at school or be unhealthy years later, at age 10.
A study of 1,300 children found that the negative effects on older children increased with every hour of TV they had watched as toddlers. The TV-raised kids even ate more junk food! 11% of the two-year-olds and 23% of four-year-olds studied watched more than the recommended maximum of 2 hours of TV a day.
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