In the argumentative essay “TV Addiction” by Marie Winn, Winn links watching television with an addiction to drugs and alcohol. The television experience allows us to escape from the real world and enter a pleasant and peaceful state of mind. When it comes to television, Marie asks the following question: Is there a type of television viewing that falls into the more serious category of destruction addiction? I believe there is. Why do so many people, instead of doing what they should be doing, put everything on hold and focus only on television? I think this is because they want an escape from their problems. I agree with Marie Winn 100% and I think she is right. Television is a major addition in society and people are so blind to it that they don't even realize that they are hypnotized into trance. Television is brainwashing everyone's minds and there is no way to stop it. It is mainly up to the person watching television to decide to turn it off, without having regrets. According to Jerry Mander's book, For Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Mander describes how many excessive viewers have described the experience of sitting in front of the television (chapter 8). Below are some of the descriptions: • “ I feel hypnotized when I watch television.” • "Television sucks my energy." • “I feel like I'm being brainwashed.” • “I feel like a vegetable when I'm stuck there in front of the television.”• “Television distances me.”• “Television is an addiction and I'm a drug addict.”• “My kids look like zombies when they watch it.” • “TV is destroying my mind.” • “Television is turning my mind into a… paper medium… for children. Children are exposed to 20,000 advertisements a year 8,000 televised murders and 100,000 acts of violence before finishing elementary school. By the time children graduate from high school, these numbers more than double -social and anti-social are influenced by television. Although violence is part of our lives, I think society can limit the amount of violent programs it watches. If people limited the viewing of violence on television, perhaps the world would not he would be as involved in the violence as he is now. Based on this data, I have concluded that Marie Winn is correct about television being a serious addiction. Bibliography Mander, Jerry For Arguments for the Elimination of Television. New York: pen, 1978.