Hypercommercialism

As a young teen living in my mother’s home, I observed television to be the greatest isolation agent used to avoid conflict. My two brothers, my mother, and I each had our own TV in our rooms. There were also other TV’s that were used in the guest room, and in the basement for the home theatre affect. Something that was in common with all these TV sets, was that they were all in rooms behind closed doors, thus strengthening the communication barrier that my family still continues to exhibit from day to day. Lynn Spiegel says it best in her book, Make Room for TV, when she mentions, “…the contradiction between television’s utopian promise of increased social life and the dystopian outcome of domestic seclusion.” This same isolation disrupted the order in our home: from eating all meals alone in our rooms, to apathetic attitudes towards homework, and also to unhealthy sleeping habits.

In conclusion, I feel that Reality Television is the biggest example of voyeurism over self-reflection, commercials make materialism seem acceptable, and this is why many people feel like they can never have too many TV sets. Personally, I’ve become more analytical with what I see on TV and try to always read between the lines.

Some topics in this essay:
Lynn Spiegel, America Manipulative, Real World”, , Conan O’Brien, Ellen Gray, TV TV’s, Reality Television, Personally I’ve, Gulf War, tv sets, mother’s home, reality tv, reality television,