Bushido Hacks's Journal: Turn-off-TV week becomes Mental Detox Week

While the concept of Turn-Off-TV week is pretty straight forward, the culturejamming group Adbusters has extended it to other forms of electronic media calling it Mental Detox Week. While I personally am cool with not being part of the iPod clique or sending text messages to the point that my phone bill comes in a box delivered by FedEx, The Media Foundation has begun to shift gears given the change in technology and the fact that most parents look at the Xbox as an electronic babysitter. There really is nothing that requires being connected or teathered to the internet for.

Go outside and play, kids! You're fat bodies and blank stares are giving the new technology a bad name! You too, Mom and Dad! Take the kids fishing. Road trip...even if gas is $3.75 per gallon. Find a nearby river or lake that is in walking or bus distance and get outside for a while. CELLPHONES OFF! Leave them in the car. Do some IRL stuff!