Television, Ipods, etc. are all forms of 'mind control'.

What they ultimately do, if carried out to the extreme, is separate people from their 'better nature', which I call 'The Self'.

Society is becoming more full of people addicted to these things and, consequently, more egotistical and less aware of what drives or motivates them to do what they do.

In other words...people have lost the ability to be Silent.

And, in return, have slowly sacrificed a portion of their sanity.

Such is the dual-nature of technology.