Getting Unplugged: Take Control of Your Family's Television, Video Game, and Computer Habits

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Summary: "Getting Unplugged" Fire up the cable and hand me my mallet!
Review: This is quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. And I have consumed Thosands, which might come as a shock to the authour, who considers anyone who has ever glimpsed a television an addle brained halfwit.Her hysteria is matched only by her juvinile simplicity. All electronic media, according to this book, is demonic, and has no value at all! To make her point(?) she quotes such indisputible moral leaders as Al Gore (Nuff said?), and Dr. Spock, who blames television for everything from Vietnam to diaper rash. Need I remind the good doctor that his feel-good disipline free approach to parenting is responsible for two generations of mewling self-important nymphomaniacs? In the real world, you alone must choose all you study. Who's to say you can't enjoy 18th century novels, and MST3000? The Tao Te Ching, and NewsRadio? Those who follow Neo-Luddite dogma will never be truly enlightened, for they have closed themselves off from a fountainhead of knowledge. True, vast cesspools of thought free frivolity must be navigated past, but there are also to be found, ceasless works of history, life, and true art. "Getting Unplugged", teaches you to throw the baby out with the bathwater, while sporting a smug, puritanical, reflectionless grin on your unthinking skull. I'll admit, there are a few parts in this book where I didn't want to drive a rouqe mallet through said unthinking skull of anyone who whould find this schoolmarmish drivel uplifting, but these are few and far between. If you want a thought provoking book on media, read "Virtuous Reality", by Jon Katz. If you used Dr. Spocks methods to turn your children into intellectual and moral midgets, then by all means, buy this book! it will teach you the fine arts of scapegoating, and blaming inanimate objects for your own shortcomings.