A New Low

As I was sitting and writing last night, I had the TV on for background noise. I have this ability to listen even if I'm not exactly paying attention. My guess is that it is from my sports background and listening to my teammates while paying attention to whats going on was important. But I digress. A commercial came on that caught my attention. The commercial was for "Viggle".

In a sentence, Viggle is a rewards program for people watching TV. You get points for each program you watch. Basically they are encouraging people to sit around and watch more TV. Now correct me if I'm wrong but aren't we here in America suffering from an already overweight population? Now people will get rewards for sitting around for hours at a time staring at the screen? Where is the logic in that?

I realize that this is slightly hypocritical as even I do enjoy some TV programs. But I'll watch maybe an hour max unless it is a sporting event such as the super bow. I think this will hurt the younger people of our generation the most. Of course one could argue "Well I'll just tell my kids to go outside". While this will work to an extent, the truth is that it will always be monkey see, monkey do with kids. It is why infants react and mirror movements before speech.

I apologize for the rant. I will do my best to keep these few and far between but that just totally caught me off guard.  I love the outdoors. Getting away from everything, it is one of my favorite feelings in the world. I do realize everyone is different. That is fine. But let the kids of this current generation have a chance to see what they are missing, a chance to go on their own adventures. Don't entice them to sit around and watch TV. What have we got to lose right?