Namaste!
Dazzled by TV is what Kafka was prophetically writing about almost 100 years ago, when observing the effects of the progenitor to the goggle-box...cinema...
Quote from above article:
“Cinema disturbs one’s vision. The speed of the movements and the rapid change of images force you to look continuously from one to the next. Your sight does not master the pictures; it is the pictures that master your sight.”
...& it is this mastery of your sight that the power elite rely on when they need you to NOT notice the bait & switch happening right before your very own eyes as Canadian journalist Barrie Zwicker explains in The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw... ...& George Carlin about sums it up near perfectly when he says about those same power elite:
"THEY OWN YOU!"
Why can't humanity pull it's way out of this endlessly masochistic loop?
I ask this of myself, & all people, why are i/we so afraid, so fearful, to fall for the same bullshit year in & year out?
As George says:
- we tend to get assassinated if we do stick our head up to much
- we don't get educated about the endless history of lies that control us today
And on top of that, our food, environment & minds are becoming so polluted with various toxins, that by the end of the day the average person is just too damn tired to do much of anything apart from flop down, & watch the TV...e...drug of a nation, breeding ignorance & feeding radiation...e...& try not to worry about how to pay the mortgage, HP's, credit cards etc, without having to always work harder & longer...e...interest rate rises, petrol price rises, staple foods like wheat & dairy rising; prices seem to be rising so steadily they'll soon be hitting the mythical 7th heaven & become monetarily enlightened!!
...e...all the while, while slouched on couch, the TV drills hypnotically into your subconscious...e...the propaganda of frivolous fluff sitcoms segue into un-reality rubbish, then intercut with the fatalistic fear 'the latest News' brings us of death, disease, famine & war, dramatically followed by the latest superhero cops & lawyers, saving the day -yet again, again, AGAIN - the only respite being...buy this! buy that! You can buy it all & there's a money back guarantee that your purchase won't fill the growing emptiness inside you this dross generates day after day, night after night...e...
To sum up the above...
Revelation!
Its an anti-salvation i re-realise with revulsion...e...
...e...studies show we are 7 times more likely to remember, & share, bad news rather than good; &, yes, there is good stuff on TV, but about 7 times less than the bad stuff...e...
Am i falling victim to self-inflicted, paranoid delusional cynicism here?!?!?!
Or fiddling while Rome burns?!?!?!
Or just trying to 'be happy'?!?!?
...e...maybe combining all 3, philerosphi, will grant me the much sought 4th; the state of grace we are all consciously, &/or otherwise, yearning for...e...
peace!
pSi :-)
ps - with respect to Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy!
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