Dumbox is my portmanteau version of television. It composed originally from two words, dumb and box. The meaning is not a box that’s dumb, but a box that will make you dumb. No, it probably not going to produce enough waves that will actively damages your brain, but it come close to paralyze your brain. You must lessen your time and your kids’ time using these dumbox. Here’s some of the reason.

1. In my opinion, your brain is more active when you watch a blank wall than a television. Why, because your brain really works best when nothing happened around you. So, if you watched television five hours a day, your brain become less active than a prisoner that staring at four blank wall in the cell.
2. There’s dumbox and there’s smart box. Yes, there’s some good tv shows out there that deserve a mentions. But the rest is a complete junk. Trust me. Choose wisely your selections.
3. Your activity can vary immediately if you have enough will to touch the remote control and turn off the dumbox. You can read a book, do sports, write blog, talk to your family and join language class. All is more important than wanting to know what happened to that poor girl who being abused by her mother-in-law but in fact she’s a long lost daughter of a wealthy businessman.
4. Your opinion always based on information you watch on television and you become too lazy to find out more. It’s like a tiger who get meat everyday in the zoo and when he’s released to the jungle, he dies of hunger. You judged people, places and situations easily without enough information.
5. Ads on the dumbox will make you want things that you never really needed. You got this perfection imaging flashed every ten second and of course stuff that will make you reached that image.
6. You become agitated when your kids exposed by these too much violence on dumbox and blame the dumbox station and not your kids and yourself. All you need is really a windows to throw your television outside and interact more with your kids. Do not writing letter to newspaper telling everybody that you’re not smart enough to throw the television and attack the media instead.

Really, we should know better than staring helplessly to the dumbox. Especially with current indonesian show like the S word.

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