Television is Bad For You

[Didymos Thomas]

In the American Civil War, while the revolutionaries (the Confederate States of America) lost, not even their leaders (like Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stevens, Robert E. Lee) suffered much more than losing the right to vote. Davis was imprisoned for a short time, but no one was executed, the Confederate soldiers were all repatriated, etc. Reconstruction was hard enough despite this, but if there had been harsh treatment of the south (beyond what already happened in the war) there would probably have been a generation of guerilla warfare, resistance, and perhaps another open civil war.

The occupying Union army was notably kind to the conquered southerners. However, that's not to say the southern states were not treated harshly after the war. Carpet baggers, anyone?

Another open civil war was simply not possible. The south lost over 15% of their fighting-age male population. Guerrilla fighting did continue for some time; the KKK was initially one such group.

[No0ne]

Originally Posted by Didymos Thomas

USATODAY.com - Frequent TV watching shortens kids' attention spans
USATODAY.com - Short attention span linked to TV

Both links contain full articles. From the first link:

Frequent TV watching shortens kids' attention spans

By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY


Psychologists and media experts are concerned, but not surprised, by a landmark study suggesting that frequent TV watching by infants and toddlers may shorten their attention span by age 7.


The research, in today's Pediatrics, finds that the more television very young kids watch, the more likely they are to have trouble concentrating and to become impulsive and restless.


Site with information and opinion on the issue:
Kill Your Television TurnOffYourTV.com

And finally, the research itself:
Early Television Exposure and Subsequent Attentional Problems in Children -- Christakis et al. 113 (4): 708 -- Pediatrics

Every thing that is recorded on one end where T.V show's/ Movie's are made, on the other end were we see them, we see it with a difrent preception than those that make it, therefore we all are sucked into a fake world of perception, and while kid's are young they allready lack a sence of what's real and what's fake in this existance, cartoon's effect this natural proccess that has been going on from the start of man, therefore its understandable for to see effect's such as those within child's that are tryen to make sense out of this nonsense wourld...

The thing is, T.V. speak's to everyone difrently, hence we all have a difrent perception of the same T.V. show, and from that we create mental image's and add to the storie line, yet even tho we have difrent perception of it, there mainly close to one another, yet to a child, T.V. will highly effect the child's sense of what the world really is, it's effect is even greater if the child has not been teached some form's of concepts of this existance. When T.V was first released they did not think that it would have effect's on the way how children grow up and absorb infromation, mainly because there wasnt no telatubbie's back then ^^...

There is alot i can say about the matter of T.V. and Movie's and how it has effected humanity for good and for the worst. But it come's down to a simple fact, The people that made all the concept's and discoverys that has made our present as it is now, did not grow up wacthing the wiggle's or some other hypnotic baby show...

So television is a bad idea to let your little 1-9 year old grow up wacthing cartoon physics. and the people that make little kind show's like the wiggle's and some other's, manufacture perception's for the kid's to precieve, therefore there intent is to alters the child's/viewers perception, to the perception of what the world is the show is, therefore the viewer's play along as if the thing there wacthing is real. yet since there intentions are to alter the viewer's perception to the perception that they desire, that would be a form of brain washing, the term brain washing came from china look it up in websters dic...

So T.V. and movie's are for those that want to entertain them self's by pretending somthing's real when it's fake, and to do that one must alter's the view's perception of what they are view, from fake to real.

Ty Hollywood & Other's

I suggest teaching your child the basic's and the very foundation of how are world's existance work's and dose not work, before letting them play around in cartoon/movie land... I call it la la land ^^

( I had to cut this short due to lack of time also i left out some issue and reason's also due to lack of time, maybe another day i will adress them, yet the main problem is stated above) ( the altering of people's perception for self gain)

[Aedes]

Originally Posted by Didymos Thomas

The occupying Union army was notably kind to the conquered southerners. However, that's not to say the southern states were not treated harshly after the war. Carpet baggers, anyone?

Another open civil war was simply not possible. The south lost over 15% of their fighting-age male population. Guerrilla fighting did continue for some time; the KKK was initially one such group.

Guerilla fighting was pretty minor, however, especially since Lee openly discouraged it. Yes, the south was treated roughly, though never so roughly as by Sherman's army in Georgia and the Carolinas and by Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah. But that was war, and scorched earth strategic war has been employed ever since.

But I think you're missing my point, which is that revolutions do NOT and should not be concluded with the complete destruction of the adversary. And the American Civil War is one example that demonstrates this, even though the repercussions of the war are felt to this very day.

[Didymos Thomas]

Guerilla fighting was pretty minor, however, especially since Lee openly discouraged it. Yes, the south was treated roughly, though never so roughly as by Sherman's army in Georgia and the Carolinas and by Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah. But that was war, and scorched earth strategic war has been employed ever since.

You are right, the guerrilla warfare was minor. Usually Sherman is called a butcher for his march through the heartland even though Sherman tried his best to keep his soldiers from mistreating the population.

But I think you're missing my point, which is that revolutions do NOT and should not be concluded with the complete destruction of the adversary. And the American Civil War is one example that demonstrates this, even though the repercussions of the war are felt to this very day.

You are absolutely right on this point. Destroying the south would have been simply foolish.

[Aedes]

Originally Posted by Didymos Thomas

You are right, the guerrilla warfare was minor. Usually Sherman is called a butcher for his march through the heartland even though Sherman tried his best to keep his soldiers from mistreating the population.

Sherman was a brilliant strategist, the best the North had, and he understood strategic warfare better than anyone else. The South had no one like him; they didn't have any good strategists, but that was partly because Jefferson Davis kept his generals (even including Lee) limited purely to battlefield tactics and kept strategic decisions to himself. Sherman's campaign destroyed Atlanta, Savannah, Charleston, and Columbia, destroyed railroads, and burned tons of farmland; but this was the same strategic phenomenon as the allied flights bombing the Ruhr Valley's industry during WWII or the naval blockade of Germanhy during WWI. Nonetheless, Sherman is completely reviled in the South to this day.

Now from what I read, Sheridan who stormed through the Shenandoah Valley and burned all its farmland (one of the main breadbaskets for the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia) actually turned out to be a nearly genocidal maniac in his prosecution of the Indian Wars. Sherman seemed to be a good person, though.

By the way, I've only lived in NC for only a year, I am from Connecticut and I've lived my whole life in Connecticut, New York, and Boston, so I'm not by any means a southerner.

[Didymos Thomas]

Sherman gets a bad rap in the south. My family is old south, and I've lived my whole life in ex-confederate states. I can understand the bias against him, but southern revisionist historians get away with all sorts of lies about the man - like Henry Kissinger gets away with lies about the Nixon administration.

[OctoberMist]

I completely quit watching TV (of any kind) two years ago.

Wow! My life is so much better!!

[Joe]

Tv is the ultimate modern ego object.