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pokkets says: People don't have to learn to read, if they are having stories told to them.
Very true, Pokkets. Television also structures people's sense of time into a homogenous conformity. This perhaps indicates the underlying anxiety of culture, anxiety being a terror of time.
Heavy television usage correlates with low to medium levels of depression and anxiety.
Heavy television usage correlates with low to medium levels of depression and anxiety.
Turn the TV off! It is a propaganda box with more power than one could imagine.
fuck yeah! i don't watch tv reading books is a much better way to spend my life. TV is evil.
Except discovery channel though
Except discovery channel though
Then what about computer games and Internet? These are same brainwashing mashines.
Yes Television is not alone. The things that when seen remove the need to think. When we are fed information through stories of reports, it is not questioned, what we hear and see becomes the record of the time, and we are too busy to think about anything else. There is television and internet that is engaging, and productive. The steady stream of input, when watching a story overwhelms our reasoning, and allows a "Suspended sense of disbelief" So that fiction can be seen as reality. Advertising uses this dulling of reasoning, by sending a barrage of incredible offers, when our defense against dishonesty, or suggestion are weakest.
It just seems there is so little to learn on TV.
Whenever we...
It just seems there is so little to learn on TV.
Whenever we...
Question everything and everyone in Authority.
Television bane of a generation,
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.
From a song I wrote in 1984:
"You're hooked on the TV, it's running your life
Morning to evening, it's running your life
Radioactivity is ruining your eyes
You can't turn it off now
It's your demise."
I've not been a mass consumer of television for a few years, now. I've found that it is an intelligence sucker, an income reducer, and a health-risk inducer.
"You're hooked on the TV, it's running your life
Morning to evening, it's running your life
Radioactivity is ruining your eyes
You can't turn it off now
It's your demise."
I've not been a mass consumer of television for a few years, now. I've found that it is an intelligence sucker, an income reducer, and a health-risk inducer.
So are you saying that the subconscious mind has been proven to exist?
Think the article is less concerned with misinformation etc (e.g. about politics) than the generalised effect of television which is seen as providing an artificial, simplified world of tension and release as a substitue and 'screen' for distracting people from the torment of 'tension-wracked existence' (anxiety?) of reality. The brainwashing seems to have more to do with sedating that which otherwise would be screaming.
I was enthralled as I read this. Simply fascinating.
Surely everyone loves a good conspiracy theory,
and being the good citizen everyone expects me to be, already partially brainwashed, and well on my way to make up the difference, I love stories which make up my mind for me. I love my opinion handed to me. Thinking for yourself is over rated.
In all honesty though, wouldn't anyone who isn't beyond the point of no return draw the same conclusions?
The only reason to disagree seems to be because it would be incongruent with your preexisting belief structure. And if TV is one of your core beliefs, well...
Surely everyone loves a good conspiracy theory,
and being the good citizen everyone expects me to be, already partially brainwashed, and well on my way to make up the difference, I love stories which make up my mind for me. I love my opinion handed to me. Thinking for yourself is over rated.
In all honesty though, wouldn't anyone who isn't beyond the point of no return draw the same conclusions?
The only reason to disagree seems to be because it would be incongruent with your preexisting belief structure. And if TV is one of your core beliefs, well...
the reason to watch tv is connection ,to see the outside world ,what's happening. I think the internet and radio does a much better job.
and reading is healthier and easier on the eyes.
and reading is healthier and easier on the eyes.
staying away from the box is simply replaced by obsessions with new technology like cellphones,internet etc. Have tried to remember telephone numbers without consulting the cell contacts list? .It seems we using less and less brain cells as time goes by.
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