two commercials showing too much of our true culture

There is this TV commercial that has not been sitting right with me. It is of a young girl and her father at home making a volcano for her school science fair. You can tell that they spent all of this great quality time together and they set-off their volcano, it was lame. The girl and father was sad. So the dad went to best buy and bought a fancy huge TV. The girl set up her TV at the science fair showing a fancy volcano exploding and everyone is amazed.


It makes me so mad. This little commercial goes from a true moment to having technology suck the life out of you. It makes me so mad that the dad rejected the project he and the girl made and went by himself to purchase a big TV.
I saw another commercial last night that made me equally angry. It was a car commercial. Two different families testing out a car, one car has WiFi the other doesn't. The family driving the one with WiFi has two silent zombie kids in the backseat with headphones on and staring at a iPad. The other one had two loud talkative kids in the backseat engaging everyone in the car. They were pushing the zombie car. Showing how great it was to have 2 silent kids.

I have been struggling with this. It makes me want to throw away everything technology. But on the flip side I truly love technology-- where is the balance? These two commercials clearly aren't balanced. It makes me so mad how they show that people time doesn't matter its all.

I need to be above this. I need to work at not becoming a technology zombie. It is a really hard thing to balance. Our culture needs to change how we feel about these tools. They may soon take us over and we will be nothing.