The Ultimate Brainwashing....TV

Have you ever been watching TV and not known you had an entire conversation while watching? Maybe you haven't experienced this extreme form of a trance the the television pust us in every time we watch it. I know from personal experience I have had entire conversations with my mom and friends during a show and afterward don't even recall talking. Maybe you have been eating one time while watching television and realized you finished an entire bag of chips. These are two examples of the trance television puts us in that are easily seen. However, the television can brainwash us without us even noticing. It tells us norms we should follow and teaches us values. One example would be the effect of looks of characters on TV on viewers. Many viewers start developing an unhealthy body image at a very young age. As we see ever channel full of beautiful, flawless, unhealthy skinny people, children and teens are conditioned to think this is the way they are supposed to look. With unrealistic views on what they should look like much unhappiness springs into the minds of young people thinking that they aren't good enough. In addition, try and become good enough t.v. manipulates us to think that the way to be good enough is to buy stuff to make us look better or become more popular. As we continue to buy and cease to find any results we continue the never ending cycle of buying then not feeling good enough and buying....