Television, drug of the nation

Television truly is a miraculous invention. We either sleep our short, short lives away in an attempt to escape it's jingles and memorized lines OR we willingly watch it & fall asleep in front of it, absorbing it's toxic cocktail of binaural information. How many people have slaughtered their entire families at some tragic news story, only later revealed to be part of an advertisement? How many housewives have slit their wrists or overdosed on amphetamines and highballs because their husbands bought them the wrong diamond ring from Zales & they just weren't "feeling 7-Up"? Ironically, I'm typing this on another toxic and addictive piece of technology, designed to keep me staring at it just like a television.