[Boogieman]

“Television (in the home) was the beginning of an artificial reality...”

No, it was those darn printed books that people started using to escape reality. Dang you Gutenberg, dang you straight to heck!

[Norm Lenhart]

The Gutenburg night shift guy probably breated the first printed porn on the side. THAT is where the problem started

The painting/cave art was too time consuming, so Early Playboy was born! ;)

[redgolum]

That was actually an argument used against books. Common people didn't need to read because it only fills their heads with non orthodox ideas.

[savagesusie]

Ideas transmitted by books actually increases intellectual growth depending on the type of ideas you are consuming.

TV watching—especially by young children is detrimental to intellectual development and makes the brain lazy. The ability for children to understand complex ideas in books took maturity and concentration and memory work and real life experience —before they could decode and digest the book.

It is an exercise of the brain. TV shuts the brain down to a large extent and does all the work for the child, where books allow imagination and uniqueness.