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Psychological Pollution

The most common form of pollution is the one that sneaks furtively into our lives when we are invaded by various toxic products. This is the price we too dearly pay in exchange for our comfort. Paradoxically, everything that makes our life better seems to poison the very essence of it. Cars and electrical appliances, foods and detergents, all make our Mother Nature get suffocated. We progress, so we pollute. Apparently we do not live any better and our brains do not either. Pollution, seen as an invasion of evil that tends to conquer the land of good, descends from comics and science fiction scripts into our everyday reality. Thus, we talk about a pollution of psychic and mind thank to television, media, bad music, kitschy souvenirs, computer games, mobile phones and the list does not end here. They invade our conscious and subconscious ego. Of all, television is the worst. It entered so fully and deeply into our everyday existence that we can hardly imagine a home lacking the absolutely ordinary set. It is part of the family. Its greatest disadvantage is that stimulates and promotes violence, aggressiveness, pornography and bad taste. Whether we like it or not, our society is dependent. And when it comes about foods, well, they say you are what you eat. But what we eat is neither healthy, nor nutritious for our body. Talking about mind pollution, we are bombarded ceaselessly with tons of information that make us feel useless, frightened or powerless. Wars, famine, catastrophes give everyone nightmares. The newest invention, that I am using right now to type these lines, dominates us, too. How many children would change a computer for the old silent friend, the book? Thousands of them spend hours in front of the magic screens entangled in violent computer games with consequences that are frightening to predict. Television does not favor an interactive participation in the instructive process. Hours of TV watching turn us into passive couch potatoes, whose limited real existence lack will and energy. “Children get so much used to that reality that they do not want anymore to understand what is going on in the real world. They are completely satisfied with the sensations they get in exchange.” Human brains take in with no discernment erroneous deformed bits of information. Scientists believe that people can react violently or overreact in extreme insensible ways and that they could hardly care about their own needs and of the others’. Artificially, concepts like prejudices, fanatic views, domestic violence, and environmental indifference may be stimulated by too much television. “Television and computer undermine the activity in the cerebrum. Therefore, logical and analytical thinking, accurate utterance of ideas, reading, writing, mathematical rationale, together with many other abilities are in danger, as they constitute good ground for manipulation.(Healy, 1990). The students at the State University of Canberra are taught that via television, the information enters directly into the subconscious of masses. Pavlu, in 2002, said that pornography and aggressiveness create dependence and leads to negative social manifestations.