The Silent Influence of Entertainment
A couple arrives home from work one evening to find a large heap of trash in their front yard. Their initial disgust is quickly quietened by the shiny objects and artifacts spotted amidst this heap of trash. Interesting artifacts which tell a story of years past but have no value in the present time. The thrill of finding new artifacts evening after evening so consumed this couple that they no longer noticed the poisonous filth they inhaled. Their health deteriorated, their manners became coarse, their sense of beauty slackened – all this they did not realize.
The majority of today’s television entertainment is no different from this heap of trash. Its effect on the viewer is hardly noticed by him. Hardly does he observe the stifling of his nobler self or his increasingly uncouth manner of speech. In his delusion about his freedom to think or speak as he likes, he refuses to acknowledge the influence of those things he willingly exposes himself to.