mid term draft

State whether you agree or disagree that watching television is likely to make people more violent.

Imagine a time and place where things like crime, violence, and corruption did not exist. Imagine humanity free of control, free of personal interests and selfishness, a place where people took responsibility for themselves. But to go on with such a list would be too optimistic. We all know as people already living on this planet that the things mentioned above are mankind’s legacy. For generations now humanity has been in a steady decline, not just financially and politically as I’m sure you’ve noticed. But we’ve literally as a species have been de-evolving, regressing further back every year so it seems. I’m aware such statements may seem outrageous even ludicrous, but the evidence has been piling up for quite some time now and it’s time to face the facts!
There have been an endless number of studies documenting this phenomenon. In more recent years we have been able to calculate more accurately than ever. Humans are easily influenced creatures, may it be directly or indirectly we are like sponges. We absorb everything around us, the good and the bad. Once an evolutionary trait that got us out the trees and walking upright, now seems to be our greatest weakness. It can be a difficult subject to grasp but television and other forms of media are as much a part of us as our brains. (Almost like an external hard drive to a computer) The media has become an outlet for billons of people to connect and share, and is one of the greatest strides in human communication to date. But what is being communicated? What are we as the viewer being shown, and what kind of repercussions could we possibly suffer from? The questions persist …
Present day 2010, as a society we are on a hill, the path we walked to get to where we are is in full focus, our past is visible. But the question is have we learned from it? Personally as a member of society and a long term victim of the media I can say that no, we have not. It seems as time has progressed the media has grown not only in size; satellite radio/television, modern film, mass produced books and genres, commercial advertisements etc... But its overall reaches. People who have never had a television or internet are now plugged like the rest of us. The state of internet is stronger than ever.