What Would You Say?
What would you do if I came to you and said, “You pay me $50/month and I will do the following:
- I will feed you nothing but lies and disinformation about the world around you, and distort any understanding you may have of world history.
- I will make you feel powerless and unable to affect your environment
- I will lower your IQ by a few points
- I will make your wife and girlfriend (or you, if female) feel insecure and worthless, then convince you/them that the only way to temporarily relieve those feelings is to run out and spend money you don’t have on things you don’t need.
- I will alienate you from your family, friends and neighbors.
- I will take away 12 years of your life
And, as an added bonus, for no charge, I will turn your daughter into a little slut.“
I think, you would, very likely tell me to “go f*ck myself.”
But you don’t, do you?
Nope. You continue to pay them to do exactly the above. As a matter of fact, you even pay extra for more channels of useless “programming.” You even ask, “How much extra for the premium package?” You personally talk about “mindless entertainment,” the “boob tube,” the “idiot box” and your favorite “programs,” but never even stop to reflect on the true meaning behind those phrases
But, don’t take my word for it. There are several articles and studies out there that validate this line of thought. Here are just a FEW of them:
- Watching TV ‘is bad for children’
- TV toddlers ‘become aggressive’
- Television watching may hasten puberty
- TV linked to lower test scores
- How to Add Twelve Years to Your Life
- The Most Powerful Weapon Of Them All
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*1: This is not some preachy misguided do-gooder nonsense about v-chips, television content and morality. What I am saying is “don’t watch ANY television, or at a bare minimum, drastically limit your exposure to it.”
*2: Those interested in subliminals, or what I sometimes refer to as “superliminals,” may find this article of interest. [Back-linked 04/04/08] Or, this related article.
I’m 101% agree[ing] with you.
young fella,
i just found your sight a few minutes ago. in the first video you said ‘people should unplug their TV’. i said to myself, there’s a smart fella. i will be catching up on your vast trove. turning off the tv is the most important thing to do to start the journey of gaining consciousness.
i listen to alan watt. he feels the same and says that there will be withdrawal!!
my own personal experience was to wean back. you discussed that ALL programs are programming the listener. someone suggested muting cnning fox ‘news’ and just reading the streamer on the bottom. while they are talking the war news is going sideways (fast) on the bottom. i personally fell better and now cannot really be in the room when the tv is on. the music, subliminals, flashing, ‘info’ seems to raise the BP, heart rate, and all sorts of mind functions.
i have been trying to figure out a way to make turning off the TV (cell phone, video games and on) … a cool thing to do. the only thing i come up with so far is to run a contest drawing from the quitters pool with an award of th big-ass hi-def tv.