Television addiction is no mere metaphor:
People tend to spend three hours of their day watching television. That is how much time we should spend studying or doing homework. People would rather be watching television than spending time with their families. When I go visit my grandfather, he is always in the same spot on the couch watching television and hen we are there talking he ignores us and watches that television. According to the book, people associate television with being relaxed. I could somewhat agree with this because when I am stressed I tend to go on Netflix and watch a bit of whatever show I am watching at that point. Television helps people distract themselves from what they are doing, causing people to feel relaxed. Not only does television help people relax, but it also sells different items to people. For example, there are commercials that sell things to people. That helps you remember the name of the product because some commercials are easy to remember, causing one to buy the product in the future.
Girls, Girls, Girls:
Girls are shown specific ways through television. This show that the book talks about is about different twenty-year-old girls. How they are after doing their childhood "wrong". At the time this was a show that spoke to many girls during this generation. This was important because this was a show of real girls, not the perfect girls who were shown on the television that knew what their lives would be like. This is like many of us that are currently in college. We do not know exactly what we want our lives to be like.
The Apocalyptic Strain In Popular Culture: The American Nightmare Becomes the American Dream:
The American Dream is different for everyone. The common one in the twentieth century was having a family, a big house in the suburbs and having a car or two. the office jobs have left no time for parents to spend time with their kids. This is true till this day I had many friends in high school that rarely spent time with their parents because they were always working. The would have to spend time with other family members so that they would not be home by themselves. Since people are always working trying to accomplish their American dreams, now there are different television shows that show what will happen if the people cannot accomplish their American dreams for some reason. For example shows have something happen to electronics, the return of minutemen, and zombies. Showing how much more different the people's lives would change.
Netflix and the Future of Television:
Netflix is a website that has television shows and movies that are on computers and phones that people can watch at any time. Similar to the store or old store blockbuster where people were able to rent movies and shows. Since Netflix has become more popular, blockbuster has gone out of business. I remember going to blockbuster on Friday nights with my family and renting movies and watching them when we got home or on Saturday morning. one popular video streaming website is youtube. Now almost on every device there is a way to watch television or movies. I have a sister who is now seven but she was able to learn how to use youtube and Netflix when she was about two years old. Now she probably uses it more than me. Now with netflix one is able to binge watch shows. This is when one watches a television show for hows or days straight. I have done this with many different shows.
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