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television
"Television has
allowed us to create a common
culture, and without it we would not have been able to accomplish our
goal." - Morris Janowitz*
"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
"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
Television converts all of reality into
entertainment.
"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States
is one of the wonders of the Western world.
No First World country has
ever managed to eliminate entirely all objectivity - much less dissent. " -
Gore Vidal
Image creation technologies
transform our way of thinking.
Once television was in the home it became
the primary source of
social culture modeling.
The television forged an
epistemology in which
all information had
to become entertainment to attract attention.
Television allows an
endless source of raw material to be processed into entertainment.
Entertainment removed from reality by
the naturally occurring
bias' of all those responsible for the presentation.
The hunger for entertainment allows
for monumental fiction.
Television provides a common window on
public reality, the window through we are conditioned to
apperceive those parts of life
with which we do not have direct contact, entertainment had stealthily become
the standard of value for reality itself.
"This may be 2007, but
when we consider the power of
mythology the psychology of the average man hasn't changed in 4000 years.
And when everyone in the political community believes the same myth, it
becomes a parallel reality.
With TV reinforcing the 911 myth
every single day, it has become stronger than any belief system that I can
remember." - Jeff Rense
The main thrust of
television is to create dissociation from reality, to convert a mental image
into a symbol.
The audience
reacts - intertenere rather than
ekstasis.
1969
A series of human experiments Herbert E. Krugman
regarding the effect of television on human
brainwaves reveals startling results.
In less than one minute of
television viewing human brainwaves switch from
beta waves associated with
linear logical thought - to
alpha waves.
Brainwaves revert to beta
waves when the subjects stopped watching.
A 'beta' state is
considered a normal, awake
state, while 'alpha' states are experienced in
a deep relaxation
or 'daydreaming' state.
In an alpha state passive learning
experiences with visual information is directly downloaded into the
subconscious without any conscious
thought.
Television effectively numbs the left brain while engaging
the right brain disallowing
proper decoding and
critical analysis.
Essentially,
you go into a
hypnotic trance. You
are on 'auto-pilot'.
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.
- Passively learned material has
an important 'advantage' which some have also associated with so called
subliminal perception, extrasensory perception, or hypnotism.
- Passive learning can be
enhanced by the artificial induction of alpha rhythm with the aid of a
flickering light.
Televison flicker rate
at 50 Hz (PAL, SÉCAM systems) or 60 Hz (NTSC)
"Let me try to
explain the special qualities of one, two and three exposures. I stop at three
because as you shall see there is no such thing as a fourth exposure
psychologically; rather fours, fives, etc., are repeats of the third exposure
effect:
Exposure # 1 is a "What is it?" type of response.
Exposure #2 will elicit a remembrance response and look for
differences.
The second exposure looks closer for personal
relevance.
By Exposure #3 image is locked in biologically.
Future
contextual stimuli, a corporate
logo, sparks immediate recognition.
There is a myth in
the advertising world that viewers will
forget your message if you don't repeat your advertising often enough.
It is this myth that supports many large advertising expenditures.
The public comes closer to forgetting nothing they have seen on
television.
They just 'put it out of their minds' until and unless it
has some use and then the response to the commercial continues." - Herbert E.
Krugman
"The way in which you
restrain people from doing a wide variety of things, not compatible with the
social order of which they are members, is that you subject them to ritual.
The process is simple: you make them dance round a totem pole
until they are wild with
excitement and become
jellies in the
hysteria of collective frenzy;
you enhance their emotional state
by any device, by all the locally available audio-visual aids, drugs,
dance, music and so on; and once
they are really high, you
stamp upon their minds the
type of concept or
notion to which they subsequently become enslaved.
The savage wakes up with a bad
hangover and a deeply internalized concept.
Religion is ritual, and
the central role of ritual is the endowment
of individuals with compulsive concepts which
define their
worldview.
Deeply
internalized notions oblige them to act within prescribed limits.
Each concept has a normative
binding content, as well as a kind of
organizational descriptive
content.
The
conceptual system maps out social order and required conduct, and inhibits
inclinations to thought or conduct which would transgress its limits.
I can see no
other explanation concerning how social and conceptual order and homogeneity
are maintained within societies which, at the same time, are so astonishingly
diverse when compared with each other.
This can only be
achieved by means of conceptual
constraint, and that in turn must somehow be instilled.
Somehow,
semantic, culturally transmitted limits
are imposed on men."
- Ernest Gellner, Anthropology and
Politics, 1995
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