I think I agree with you spurious, but those of us that don't have a problem with tv and shut it off probably don't need to get rid of a tv. Otherwise, I might as well go to AA meetings or fight other addictions I don't have. It is too extreme to just get of something like television. Everyone is not going to do it. Besides, I believe that the problem is not tv, or more appropriately (please excuse spelling) what is on tv, but the fact that the people have no will power to shut it off. If the world had no television, they would simple find some other idiot drug or addiction to feed.
In any case, the people that are dumb enough to sit around all day watching tv should probably stay there. I would not like so much to have to deal with them. Sitting confined in a private area seems much better to me. If people, or perhaps a culture, decides to get up and educate themselves, they will. But you cannot make them unless you have to ability to change their lifestyles, on economically level for example.
That being said, I would also like you to think about the revolution you are trying to avoke. Are you trying to save all these people that create all the things you dislike? Are you trying to change them? If you are trying to change them, goooood luck. My experience, although possibly wrong of course, is that people do not like to change. Nor do they really like change. So once again, you have to be able to affect their lifestyles. That can be dangerous, because you are doing that because of your idea. A lot of dictators probably start out with some good ideas on paper.
Anyways, I think I will probably not thow away my tv. There are good movies, etc, I like to watch. But just as an alchoholic, you have to have the will power to regulate yourself. I, however, rarely watch common US programming because it is usually shit. So many commercials. Here in Germany, for instance, it is much better, although more boring. TV can be a tool for your mind as well as a shit box, so it is up to the operator to do something good with it.
This is all just an idea, though, and it can be wrong.