When I was young I remember my mother telling me not to sit so close to the tv because it would rot my brain. She also limited our television use to 2 hrs a day. In those days my parents referred to the television as the "Zombie Tube" because when we kids were watching it we looked like little drones. Completely vacant on the inside. Now I sit and watch the people around me and I havent discovered that in our technologically savvy society we have not only allowed our kids to be sucked up into the Zombie tube, using it as a babysitter, we have created another form of it! The computer.
Computers, paired with the internet have become the new Zombie tube. Kids sit staring at its screen all day chatting to friends and watching clips of stupidity on youtube. My only question is when will these kids start going outside? When will they ever do anything that doesnt involve a screen?
We cant escape the screens anymore. They're everywhere, hug ones on our walls (because real art isn't good enough anymore) and attached to our computers, on our phones and ipods. You can take a screen with you everywhere. But why? To keep us from being bored? Whatever happened to books? Whatever happened to just playing or making yourself useful? Drawing or doodling even?
Our creativity is being sucked out of our very souls, and are we even fighting back?
