There are many interesting things in this article about young children watching TeeVee.<\/P>
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http:\/\/thecelebritycafe.com\/features\/1250.html<\/A><\/P> “The study showed that children, especially young ones, got way too engrossed in the shows, and often became agitated if the shows were turned off.<\/FONT>“<\/P> I have a nickname for the infernal device, the Hypmo-tizer. I watch as kids sit down, tune in, and turn off. You can’t talk to them, they will hear, nod their heads and not understand a word you say. <\/P> Adult: “Hi Suzy, how was your day?” Walk in front of the Hypmo-tizer and they will scream, “get out of the way!”. It is not only children who exhibit this, growed-ups do it too, they just don’t get quite as agitated, unless the Game is on.<\/P> And this is even more interesting to me.<\/P> “Scientists involved in the project said that television can ‘reprogram the brain’.<\/FONT>“<\/P> The concept that our brains are in many ways programmed. I’ve always thought that we become programmed to think in certain patterns by the environments we develop in. I was actually thinking about this last night in regards to music and the music we listen to as we grow up. See Halley for a related musical item<\/A> (my Beatles ablums were a hand me down from my older brother, I got the old worn out mono versions when he upgraded to the Stereo versions. Makes me wonder how many times over the decades we will re-purchase all those songs). I wondered if the music I listened to as a young person helped to develop patterns in my brain that have affected the way my mind works now as an adult?<\/P> Can you say Neal Stephenson’s “Snowcrash?” This reviewer describes it here: <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many interesting things in this article about young children watching TeeVee. http:\/\/thecelebritycafe.com\/features\/1250.html “The study showed that children, especially young ones, got way too engrossed in the shows, and often became agitated if the shows were turned off.“ I … Continue reading
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Suzy: “Mmph.”
Adult: “Oh, by the way, Suzy, your hair is on fire.”
Suzy: “Mmph.”<\/P>
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http:\/\/www.spies.com\/~rawdon\/books\/sf\/stephenson.html<\/A>
“Stephenson postulates that the human brain is like a computer which can be “programmed”. Modern humans run a certain set of programs, but this virus (among others) bypasses the “high-level” programming and works at a much lower level, effectively rewriting our software.”<\/P>
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