Using your own definitions, yah, Television is a hallucination, and you make a LOT of comparisons between televisions and dreams.

On the other hand, where does the computer lie in this? Furthermore, what about music? Often radio broadcasts will lead to completely omitted vision, replacing it with sound, because this is where your interest and energy has been committed. Furthermore, then, when you read a book which contains colorful characters and well built settings, you will lose how many pages, how much time has passed, you lose even the words on the page, and replace it with a more truly dreamlike state than television is capable of inducing.

What I find interesting is that your assumption is that all of this is a bad thing. As art, actually, yes, any one person can create television. I work part-time as a media director of my father-in-law's business. I use television all the time to produce promotional material and advertisements. There are hundreds of considerations as to design, layout, timing, sound, color, and they are actually continuously judged by me, while I watch them again and again. Every aspect is repeatedly fine tuned.

By the end of your average 30 second spot, I have likely viewed the entire thing over 300 times, making judgments, and alterations to it all along the way. What you are saying is that by the 300th time I watch my 30 second spot, I should be agitated and have lost my ability to make judgments. This is, however not the case, when I compare my 30 second spot to the original 30 second spot concept I was presented with from my father-in-law, as it has been improved upon.

While, people often ALLOW themselves to enter a trance-like state while watching television, this happens all the time through regular tasks.

Have you ever fired a rifle? Now have you ever hunted? there is a difference between shooting at targets and hunting. When I hunt, every animal I have ever actually it, I never heard the gun fire, never felt the gun kick, I have no memory of reloading my weapon. Yet, every time, my chamber has been cycled, there is a fresh round in, and my safety is now on. The animal has not moved for over a minute, and I suddenly become aware that my shoulder is warm from the kick of the rifle, and my ears are ringing. Looking through a rifle scope you have a flattened image, further than you find in either dreams or television, but if you DON'T experience this, you aren't really shooting all that well.

In short. You make false assumptions that trance-like states or hallucinations are harmful, when they are, in fact, a regular part of the human experience, and are actually necessary for certain tasks. The only thing harmful about TV is when you choose to allow entry of ideas without making any judgments whatsoever, which is a mark of a lazy person, and good luck trying to make being lazy and lacking judgment illegal. I'm fully behind you on that one.

As Willy said;