In "Crack and the Box" Pete Hamill explains why he feels that watching television in excess has the same effects on you as doing drugs. He begins to state that both drugs and television have the effect of escaping a person from reality. If you are blocking everyone out while your watching television you are doing pretty much the same thing as you would drugs because using drugs make you feel like you are in your own little world like television can make you feel if you let it.
Hamill's idea is that watching television is like an addictive drug. Of course, television can be a problem for some people but the majority of the time we spend watching television it's just a chance to sit back and relax. In my opinion, television can be a good or bad thing it all depends on how you choose to use it. Sometimes people abuse television by watching it constantly and never getting away from it. Many times people block out their family for television, not knowing they are actually doing it but......
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