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there are no saturday morning cartoons anymore.

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*sniff* no one told me. I used to watch those. 

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Yeah, if everyone takes acid that will solve everything.

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I don't think acid will make everyone embrace everything.

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I know a lot of acid users who seem to hate everything about society.

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"Flooding the world with LSD would create an "escalating probability" of more embracing."

It would? What are you basing this on?

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"I don't just speak vainly, I lived in a time doused in LSD, and compared with now, it was much better. "

I know some coke addicts who say their lives were way better when they were partying it up and doing coke all the time. How is this different?

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"Not about "society" which is loosely interpereted as an irrelevant and temporary belief system forced upon the unaware and embraced by those with a stake in it."

Society is not a belief system.

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Like they encoded it so only those who understand it can watch it, and those who don't understand it... will be get angry at it.

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Droz said:

There is TV and there is opinion.
 

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It would have been cooler if you said opium... 
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"Human beings are violent and sexual. Do you think that the sex and violence are put on TV because it's some kind of massive mind control conspiracy, or is it maybe because deep down it appeals to everyone?"

Yes, in fact I do think it's being used to "dumb as down" and bring out our animal aggressions and appetites, and it starts from childhood when most parents want to occupy their children.

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If people were intelligent enoug hto make decisions on their own, and had enough responsibility to take care of their own actions, they would do something about it.

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People want to be told what to do, people want to be told what to feel.

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That doesn't make any sense at all. It's not a massive mind control conspiracy, it's just people trying to sell crap so that they can get cooler cars and better food. 

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lol i know! i was kidding .

I agree and thats what i said. people make television and its contents are absurd cause the ideas people put into it are for the most part rrather absurd.

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People want to be told what to do, people want to be told what to feel.

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BerZerKer!!! We do not NEED a controlling government, we simply HAVE a controlling government. That we "need" a government, is what the brainfucking is ALLLLLL ABOUT!!!

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I agree!    Can i stop telling you i agree? Cool. Im sorry if i seem a little "distorted". Anyway... What i was trying to say is that people believe they need a controlling environment, they have been "dumbed" down, "fizzled" out... whatever you want to call it. its like kind of in Brave New World, where everything doesnt seem to hold any real value, and its rather cold and sterile and produced, and because things function so well, and because the citizens have been led to let things be done for them, they stop caring about things, hence they become lazy, and un intelligent. They surrender to ignorance as an easy means of dealing with the "system" or more properly defined our Society, Whatever anyone wants to call the world we live in today. There are so many problems, so many issues that face us at every moment, if we were to think about how much they affect us it sends us into depression. So hence people are stuck to what i call a dualistic existence. On one hand they are faced with coming to grips with the troubles of their trivial lives so they can sustain some sort of life, and on the other hand they have to deal with the emotional/psychological issues associated with these Problems. What better way to reach out to millions upon millions of people and feed them an "opiate" to help them relax? I cant say for myself that someoone has purposely done this for some sort of evil against the human race, or the Christians or the Jews, i dont have a clue, thats way to speculative. I just see it as a production of things.... These are the things people have created for themselves! because these problems are so immense to deal with, people find it hard to even begin to come to grips with these issues and hence solve these problems. We are in what it would seem a global slump, if it were prosperous and healthy do you think we would be worrying so much about how we hate our jobs, or how much we hate the ignorance we see everyday and who has to suffer? No, we wouldnt. Because we would be outside, enjoying the life we have, the people we have around us and the earth given to us, isntead of polluting it, and living in harmony. But that is a very far off place and some people never think we will get there. Who is to say we cant come to grips in our own life? I dont know the answer to that question. Only the individual can ask his/her self what is best for them. aAfter all we are all individuals and we have our individual Rights. Whether people will decide that they need to work together and prosper through using intelligence, and a proper way of working with others and the natural environment is something that will take time. People are after all like you said still stuck into thinking that the simpsons is the best thing, and its going to be on in another 24 hours. Until people are freed from that they wont understand what it means to think about uniting with other people, or solving real world issues. Am i guilty of being trivial, being lazy, being ignorant, being selfish, being elitist at times, being an asshole, being perverted, being sinister, yes, i would be lying if i said that i had not done those things, or that i am not capable of them. But i try to make the best decisions i can, and i care about understanding things, and trying to Do something Contstructive to build a "difference" to the world we have now. 

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Well, perhaps you can explain to me then, why is it that the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the first world, while Scandinavian countries with far more explicit sex being featured on television have some of the lowest?

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God, how I love Norwegian television... once there was a Discovery channel program on about the scientific difficulties of making an unrestricting bra or something, and it started out with all these topless girls jogging in the woods... bouncing up and down, up.. and down... up.. and down.....

I'm also proud of how much Ali G gets to say the word fuck on his program!
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God, television.... It reminds me of that one Futurama episode, where it says at the bottom in the beginning "For cheap laser eye surgery, sit as close to screen as possible."

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Phluck said:

Television isn't so bad, but if you don't watch it you can act like you're smarter than everyone. As long as you're not stupid enough to roast yourself on a barbeque after watching Jackass you should be fine. Charles Dickens was a commercial author, writing for money, and I don't see anyone saying that his work lacks artistic merit.

Even those commercials for hairspray and hamburgers you see, those are the real art of today. The average person hates them all, and thinks they're all just mindless garbage, but the funny thing is, the average person thinks that they are ahead of the game in thinking this. They honestly believe everyone else out there is all "commercials are awesome!", but they're really all thinking exactly the same thing, and they're still eating Big Macs. Really though, commercials are changing the world.



"I didn't laugh at that because it was a reference to a television show, and I don't watch that garbage, it is intellectually bankrupt. My only source of entertainment is eighteenth century literature."

"No wonder you're so boring."

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