Assignment #5- Emma Lauritzen- run run run

Around 2011, family friends gave our family a giant TV when they got a new one. Thinking back on it, it may have just been that I was very small and everything was big, but to me the TV was like a movie screen. It was about a foot wide and very telling of its time period. It also almost tore my house apart. 
During this time my brother was the sole owner of the front seat on the way to and from school in my moms mini van, but the TV finally gave me power over my brother. The house rule was "first to the remote wins." So after school everyday for several months my brother and I raced into the house (even playing dirty by tripping and hiding the remote), and on the rare occasion when my little legs beat my brother I got to enjoy a glorious hour of control over the TV until my dad came home. But then we stopped racing when our family got a subscription to the brand new Netflix streaming service. Once a week my brother and I got to order a new DVD (back in the days where Netflix actually sent you CDs) and we didn't have to fight over the TV because we could watch the movies or tv shows on my dads laptop or in the basement. This was the beginning of a new age where I did not watch TV. 
As the years passed, streaming services changed and grew and suddenly there was no need for TV. Around middle school I only used the TV to watch the news but then all the sudden I had the news in my back pocket. So now I don't watch TV at all. Its funny to think about how my brother and I would fight for hours over the TV and now we can watch pretty much anything anywhere.
This is great and all but TV has also silenced many homes, what used to be family movie night has become silent streaming in everyone's respective bedrooms. This great american pass time has completely changed. TV is also a lot more subconscious than it used to be with advertising and politics. While its mentally numbing television isnt so bad and I have a great deal of respect for it even though I dont use it much anymore.