Comments on: Is The TV Making Me Stupid?

By: Withheld - Future emplyment prospects : )

Withheld - Future emplyment prospects : ) — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:38:53 +0000

I have been watching movies and using the Internet for about two years now. I work from home alone (Programming) and hence have very minimal interaction with other people other than the occasional telephone.

Result:
I recently completed an IQ test (100) I used to score (130-140)
My thoughts are cloudy and I find it hard to focus on a train of thought
I have become incapable of achieving goals and time seams to slip buy as if I zone in and out of conscious thought.
Loss of vocabulary
Can’t remember names of people I know yet I can see their faces clearly in my mind.
Spelling – forget it
Depression
Have you ever had one of those dreams where you are trying to run but you just seem to be going at walking pace – that describes my train of thought. It’s as if I perceive shapes through a fog but can’t quite grasp what they are – like when you just wake up and your dream slips away.

Hypothesis
Most of my activity centers around using my visual cortex and pure logic. Emotional responses are passive not projected. Intuition is not being used and although I am using both sides of my brain for creativity and logic through programming there is no introspection happening – I have come to realise that it is introspection that makes a person grow/accumulate experience. I feel I’m fading away.

I have decided to move to the Alps for a year and focus on myself for a year, to find my North again and work out what I intend to do with the next half of my life.
“What man is a man who does not make the world better place?”.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:15:34 +0000

I threw my TV away several years ago – it didn’t hit anyone – and do not miss it a bit. I found myself flicking threw the channels trying to find something I wanted to watch and after an hour or so giving up.

I also found the lies and propaganda in “news” programmes nauseating and the thought of having to pay for a license to be lied to finally persuaded me to dump it.

If others want to watch it that is their business but for the time being I am happy without it.

By: Adam Eason

Adam Eason — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:38:14 +0000

Thank you Andrew… Quite right Heroes may seem off the radar… You know that it is not though… I still glue myself to every episode of that one!

🙂

I know what you mean… I tend to think too much of anything can have adverse effects at times.

Best wishes, A.

By: Andrew Fogg

Andrew Fogg — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:21:25 +0000

I’m fully with you on this one Adam, but I’m worried that Heroes might have dropped of your radar! The only argument I can see against TV watching is that maybe some people would be better out doing something physically active occasionally rather than of watching quite so much TV – not you of course, you do enough of that as well.

Andrew