It's a box people that are challenged by reality use and grow dependent on, it appears to be somewhat addictive.
A make believe illusion of life and politics that are paid for by the highest bidder flood out of it 24 hours a day.
You've probably experienced more of it than you might think if you read many of the threads created here on the Fire.
The Fire holds a contest where they offer a 'Jimmy Olsen' award for those that can regurgitate into text what they've seen and heard coming out of their 'TV box' the fastest.
Some contestants make many attempts a day to receive this award.
The more seriously addicted to their 'TV boxes' seem to completly loose their grip on reality and except all the 'paid for by highest bidder' content that flows from their TV box as their new reality.
In their TV influenced minds they feel they are regional experts of all things locally as well as globally from the struggles of life in remote regions of our country to wars on the other side of the earth.
A common detectable indication of the extremely addicted is how they've grown to view political leaders more like movie 'action heros' and 'villains' that they tend to either worship or abominate.
