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The Cultural Wasteland of Television

HOW TELEVISION SOLD THE PANAMA INVASION

"The whole entertainment component of television is dominated by men and women who have a unified, idiosyncratic view of life." - Ben Stein*

"Television has allowed us to create a common culture, and without it we would not have been able to accomplish our goal." - Morris Janowitz* psychologist, Chicago University, December 1, 1984

"One function television news performs very well is when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were." - David Brinkley

"The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudo-world that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world has culminated in a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving." - Guy Debord

"Any technology gradually creates a totally new human environment."

Marshall McLuhan

"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially,
I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming."
Lee DeForest, 1926, radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube

"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months.
People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Darryl F. Zanuck*, head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946

The "opiate of the masses" generates an image.

Television converts all of reality into entertainment.

A dream reality as vivid as life and inextricable from reality.

"The nearest analogy to the addictive power of television and the transformation of values that is wrought in the life of the heavy user is probably Heroin™.

Heroin™ flattens the image; with Heroin™, things are neither hot nor cold; the junkie looks at the world certain that what ever it is, it does not matter.

The illusion of control Heroin™ engenders is analogous to the subconscious assumption of the television consumer that what is seen is 'real'.

In fact, what is seen are the cosmetically enhanced surfaces of products.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other addictive drug.

Most unsettling of all is this: the content of television is not a vision but a manufactured data stream that can be sanitized to 'protect' or impose cultural values." - Terence McKenna

"The story-telling function has by and large been usurped by remote professionals: the television and movie producers on the one hand, and the news media and educational establishment on the other.

Corporations provide us with stories to answer the question, "Who am I?"

The entertainment world feeds us stories about total strangers.

Dramas and soap operas bestow the illusion of being intimately familiar with celebrity lives.

Such shows tap into the inborn identity building function of the psyche, but that function is truncated when those intimately viewed lives off in television-land never feed back into our own." - Charles Eisenstein

World’s ruling elites stare into the abyss

Kim Kardashian pairs up with an MIT to publish a scientific paper

"The most potent propaganda tool is television."

Rodrigue Tremblay

"No matter what is depicted or from what point of view, the overarching presumption is that television is there
for our amusement and pleasure." - Neil Postman

Television creates expectations that weigh heavily on the subconscious which actually changes brain architecture.

control through television

"Reason requires a high degree of discipline of concentration; impression is easier." - Raymond Price

Herbert E. Krugman, who spent decades at General Electric (GE) headquarters as director of public opinion research, concluded:

• Internal alpha responses can be stimulated by appropriate external rhythms or frequencies.

• Corporate media may create special programs to help people modify certain attitudes or behavior.

• Passively learned material has an important 'advantage' which some have also associated with so called subliminal perception, extrasensory perception, or hypnotism.

• For early education there may be an opportunity to accept the fact that many children fidget in class, and that this interference with their attention is not to be blamed on parents, teachers, or the child.
  
  Mild drugging of these children, or training in relaxation through alpha driving, may be dramatically helpful to their educational achievement.

• For public television there may be an opportunity to accept without shame the fact that it has taught violence to an entire generation.
  
  The clear store of television violence is not that a new generation is more violent but that the new generation knows more violence.
  
  The political consequences of this may yet be what some would call 'good' (e.g., pacifist).

• It is possible that the relaxed and successful character of passive learning can be enhanced by the artificial induction of Alpha rhythm with the aid of a flickering light.

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