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tv the drug of the masses control of society
#5741944 - 06/12/06 02:02 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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the television since 9/11 i noticed a change in mass consciousness. 9/11 has affected the mass group hypnosis of tv to take the user and make him leave his mundane life into something rather wild or sinister or weird or hero ish.i think 9/11 like there hasnt been really one good movie since or maybe i just gone crazy and my mind cant process the movies nad tv like i used to . i used to be more involved in movies and tv almost like i co lived in them. but i think alot of people are lost in day walking through life just watchin tv and the net. but im convinced something changed since 9/11 every movie comse out just doesnt feel right. its like something died when those 2 towers went down it changed society scarred it somehow.unable to shake the bad memories kinna freaked out shock moment of the mass mind.
the tv if you look at it. it gives impression of living while sittin and not living at all. think the death of tv should be a top idea for the new world. a real world not this plastic castle we live in now.
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: hippi]
#5741968 - 06/12/06 02:11 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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The American curse: may you get what you want.
can we really blame people/coporations, that are in a capitalist society, for making money from making and designing new addictions, from amphetamine salts to Wife Swap? The TV is probably the single most culturally shaping invention, next to the internet. It is a powerful tool, but it is inanimate..... so laying blame upon the tv itself will get you no where, and is shelfing responsibility.
There is nothing wrong with the tv, nor the programming, nor the people who run it..... we are only getting what we asked for....... kind of like how McDonalds has tried on hundreds of occasions to have salads, fruit, etc, but no one buys it, and it falls into disuse until some new rogue group starts making a huge stink about how McDonalds needs to have a waldorf salad on its menu.
The only thing wrong in American Society is Americans.
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: SneezingPenis]
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: SneezingPenis]
#5742448 - 06/12/06 04:16 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
psilocyberin said:
The only thing wrong in American Society is Americans.
Nice point and new angle....
but the TV effects policy and keeps things rigid and structured (I can't beleive all the conflict on it now that I'm desensitized to it...... children even thrive on it...... )
so for every million people (and there must be a million or two?) that reject the way of American living, their voices aren't heard because people are busy tuning into the mantra of consumerism. Daily reinforcement.
lalalalalala i don't care about you hippy lalallallala peace? fuck you i hate you for cutting me off in my car and i'm gonna tailgate people lalalallalalala repeteition is good repeteition is good zzzzzzzzzz wakes up lalalalalalalalalalal BIRD FLU ... OH SHIT ! lalalalallalalalalala
It's so hilarious really I mean the news always says "keeping your family safe" count how many times you hear that!!!! Well of course you are going to listen to them, they program you to feel like your safety is in jeapordy!
Keeping your family safe.
Said with such authority. Oh fuck you. News has a good purpose, althought it is not being realized...... but it's all such petty drama.
TV replaces silence with TV and detunes your ability to feel normal emotions such as peace, stillness, and clarity of mind. TV has an agenda that is rather hostile and therefore encourages people to be senseless in their daily activities.
Aggressive driving is so moronic. Do people realize it takes several car distances to stop safely? You are going to get to your destination at the pace that EVERYONE is traveling! Doesn't that register? Tailgating does not get you there any faster.
If someone is doing 50 and you are doing 50.
Why tailgate them? They are not going to speed up so you have two options do 50 and live if the person in front of you gets in an accident.
Do 50 and die if the person in front of you gets in an accident.
Either way it's 50 mph. But oh you have to be frustrated ! You must. Fret for it all you have to speeding to work! Right. Heaven forbid you leave on time. Oh wait you did leave on time? Then why do you care?
I dunno I feel like I am channeling tool right now. Fret fret fret. It is pretty silly.
Look at how we treat insects..... if you ignore flies you are at peace. If you hate flies every time you see one you have to exert energy to kill it and how is that a reflection of you as a person? it's a fucking fly. It will land on you. It might tickle. Then it goes away. Do you yell at it? Do you go through strange gestures and tell it to shoo? Jeeze.
If you are intolerant of a measly flies existence I hate to see how you would fare with bigger nuisances. They're just chilling mostly... who cares?
Someone let me on TV.
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#5742750 - 06/12/06 05:41 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: JonPathetic]
#5742871 - 06/12/06 06:13 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's awful isn't it? I watched my dad do the same thing when I lived with him for a few years after high school. He would pass out in front of it every night, and there he'd be, half sitting, half laying on the couch with the programming just washing over him as he breathed with his mouth hanging open. And my dad is one of the more aware people I know.
We listen to the radio here at work and a few weeks ago the DJ posed a question to the listeners:
Should there be a TV in the bedroom and in the living room or just a TV in the living room?
People called in to say only in the living room because it interferes with sex, or both places so each spouse has an option of what to watch or multiple TV's so the kids can be sated too. But not one of the callers replied that there should not be a TV anywhere in the house, or more specifically, that there should not be cable Television.
It's a simple choice to make. Don't get cable in your house. People's first and only even remotely sensible reaction is "How will you keep up with events?" I don't consider being informed by the media a positive thing. Just think about that word for a minute. Informed. Emptiness is too uncomfortable.
I've made this conscious choice in my home for as long as I've had the choice. I know how insidious Television is because even as someone who chooses not to have it in my home, I still find myself watching it with friends and family if they are watching it. Although i notice that I am repulsed by the advertisements and channel surfing to the point where I look away or leave the room whereas people who are accustomed to viewing TV on a regular basis just stare at it no matter what's coming out.
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: hippi]
#5744128 - 06/12/06 10:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I agree with the "you get what you ask for" comment. TV and the media at large are nothing more than a reflection of ourselves. Indeed, with our up-to-the-nanosecond updates and incessantly varied smorgasbord of programs, the media today is quite the keen looking glass... if you find the face that greets you lacking, be sure the fault lies opposite it.
If people responded to programs with substance, to newscasts with high diction and balanced, educated coverage, to sitcoms and novellas with moral lessons and well-developed plots, i assure you the the networks would have no shortage of these things. The fact is, we don't. we want low brow humor, non-stop action, scandals, car wrecks, bombings, disasters, and as much t&a as the censors will allow. Scientific American doesn't blow out the ratings charts, 24 does. And so the media, like most other services, caters to their customers desires.
That's not to say that i think there's no greater scheme to spoonfeed us this drivel. It's not hard to list the advantages of sensation-hungry, underinformed, increasingly fearful populace for the corporate pseudo-government.
However, the fact that we lap the shit up is a tough one to deny. In fact, we love our sensory bombardment so much that the big bad media has a hard time meeting our demands. Thus the constant barrage of fresh shows, the increasingly flashy animations accompanying every other instant of "news" coverage. These are a necessity if they have any hope of holding our attention for fifteen minutes. The human brain develops a tolerance for any degree of stimulus eventually. Those suits in the boardroom that are supposedly scheming our moral and cultural decay, they're really just trying to move fast enough to hold on for the ride.
Next time you're in front of the tube, take note of how many sudden changes in camera angles or shifts in soundtrack occur per minute. Depending on the program, you may not even be able to keep count. Why is this? Because these sudden changes jar us subconsciously, compelling us to pay attention each time. at the bottom line, before any other content, it's these split-second changes that keep us engaged. The catch is that like any other fix: the more you get, the more you need. This poses a problem for the producers: they're always racing to up the dose before our tolerance compels us to change the channel. That's hard fucking work considering the fact that we've got the ability to run one show on top of another show simultaneously, all the while thumbing through the guide to see what else is on. 24 is a great example of this, and they're riding a tidal wave of ratings because they've pushed the tempo to dazzling new heights with 4 different scenes running simultaneously, each with enough flash and bang multi-angle sensation to hook all but the most avid couch potatoes. 30 years ago that sort of thing would've triggered seizures in living rooms across the nation; today we can't wait for next weeks episode.
I could go on and on but I'm shooting myself in the foot with each continuing paragraph (if you're still with me, thank you, i swear it's almost over), because a portion of the people who started reading this already have 4 new windows open and are checking their e-mail while instant messaging and shuffling through some playlist... they bailed on this post 60 trains of thought ago, a fact which further cements the point:
Don't blame the TV. Blame us for tuning in.
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Edited by otr317 (06/12/06 10:36 PM)
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: hippi]
#5744377 - 06/12/06 11:25 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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great topic. i just moved in with some new roomates who got me re-addicted to tv, and i think i just broke out of it tonight. that thing wears me the fuck out...and i had been wondering why i'd been so tired recently
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: bobjones]
#5744812 - 06/13/06 02:48 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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TV has been constructed to be an evil weapon of mass-control.
Americans are just ants.
We are all affected, we are all brainwashed. TV will get us in the end. At a certain point in time, there will be no more people in television to blame.
It will be the new money.
You never blame money for being broke.
Money is God. If you don't have money, you don't have God.
TV told me that.
TV tells me that in the future, it will be possible to watch whatever I want whenever I want it, through digital networks and the sorts.
I don't make anything running on TV.
I don't want to watch whatever they make that resembles my interests remotely.
My senses are dull.
I used to wonder who the murderer is. I used to speculate and be a detective.
Now I know who the murderer is. I don't know how. I don't want to think.
I want C.S.I to tell me, in timelapsed x-ray-high-speed-zooming actions - interpreted by their new and fancy technology. The murderer never comes clean. The murderer is always caught.
"Be very afraid. If you do anything out of the ordinary, the world will collapse. The world as you know it. The world as you know it is real, it is not a construct of your mind. The world as you know it, has been presented to you, and proven true by 3 billion viewers - agreed upon by the social society of anti-socialism, and sponsored by coca-cola, pepsi, mcdonalds, burger king, KFC, pollution, death, vamine, epidemics, terror, horror, etc. You like this food. This food makes you fat, which makes this food very nutricious, which makes this food worth eating on your way to work, and on your way home, until it isn't food anymore. Drop by snackdonalds on your way and have a small supersized milkshake, diet coke and a few bigmaccheeseburgerhotdogpizzapiefries dipped in sourcream&onion. Feel good. After this: Who is the biggest loser? Join in, lose weight. After all, you are fat and obnoxious. Don't you have any self-control, you fucking freak? You are so fat and disgusting, no wonder you are depressed and stupid. Your body is running on colesterol and your heart is like a chevette engine trying to pull an 18-wheeler - you must be the most uninformed fat chick in the history of the world. Go buy some tights, a small bikini and tanktop. Wal-mart. Gap.
Mind the Gap.
Find the sap.
Wear this marlboro cap, drive this marlboro-car, wear theese marlboro clothes. Pay a fortune. Marlboro is the original cowboy smoke, with the hippest image.
Don't smoke.
Don't drink.
Bud. Bud. Bud.
The evildoers have us in their crosshairs, we - the 300 million americans - have no choice but to panic and be utterly confused and demanding and fearful and paranoid. After all ... 500.000.000.000.000 or so super-robot-sand-niggers-from-the-inner-layer-of-hell is out to get us.
What if they choose to bomb *your* trainstation the next time. What if they blow up your childs daycare. What if they threaten national security - then we'll all die.
They want your freedom, they want your life. Because american life is better. Sand-niggers-from-hell are envious of the supreme white male. Whites are the most intelligent and civilized people of the world. We have the best societies, and we take care of our own.
Unless they for some reason do drugs, are homeless, criminals, liars, mother-in-laws, are communists or disagrees with the constitution and the literal translation thereof. Those people are the shit of the universe and offsprings of satan, and they have infiltrated us with the use of lies and propaganda.
Lets not forget the wonderful way of communication, slowly arising in sync with the uprising of tv-sitcoms. After all, if we're not numbnuts trying to get eachother down by being sarcastic and halfway evil in every sentence/sentance we ever-so hypocritically squeeze out of our (balmed) soft sweet and beautiful aryan lips of truth, love, freedom and fortune - then what are we?
Just don't be black, and you'll be good. Don't get'em back, and you'll be understood. Shut down the powerpack, eat more food. Don't smoke crack, even though you should.
I know of a book that exists, it has something to do with anarchy. In it, kids finds way to build bombs, make drugs, and other illegal activities. You can't ever find this book. This book is impossible to find. We don't want any trouble.
No, Bush didn't know about 9/11.
Of course 9/11 was highjacked passengerplanes, which happens to have no survivors, and at the most 10 nexts of kinds. Of course the sand-nigger-communist-muslim-evildoers are satans punishment for ignoring the voice of God, which tells us to eat, drink beer and smoke cigarettes while watching the game. On sunday. I mean, thats celebrating oneself, and is atleast as important as church. The seventh day doesn't count anymore, neither do any of the words of God. The times have inevetably changed.
Times have changed without the consultation of God, so now that his world is ruined, we can't afford going by the rules anymore.
This will work out.
We can do it.
Just don't die on your way to your life-upholding dayjob, which is the center of the universal acts of oneness. Read the book of Job, and get a job. You pussy.
What? Who? Faster?
Lets watch some desperate housewives and see how it really goes down.
And cops.
Damn mexican black people.
Damn cops, busting me on possession. Don't they have murderers to catch.
Yeah, in afghanistan.
Murderers in America aren't murderers, they are constitutionally upheld citizens of the civilazation of earth. (except black people, they are socially deprived apes, taken away (you are to blame) from the jungle where they belong.) How far have we come now, is it 4th, or maybe its the 5th reich?
Blow up your radio.
By the way, if you spend all day (preferably stoned) inside infront of your computer, playing online poker, chatting on AOL/MSN or just watching television - you have a fulfilling and satisfying lifestyle up to date with the newest trends. Your mind will be much more stimulated, and those annoying thoughts questioning the value of it all are second. First up: Friends. Then 70s show. For fucks sake, watch friggin' Married With Children, its ironic and marriage really is the answer. And now you get a divorce and a remarry, to the price of one marriage. BTW: Madonna has children, and she is old. What are you waiting for? You are not her. Britney has children, and she is young. She accidentally dropped the child on its head. Don't do that, but fear that, fear it alot. Childsafe your house. Even if you don't have children, that is a good idea. And here is the news."
Deathtoll of today: 334623561364 and rising. 1000000 children starve. 100030 people die of aids.
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: slaphappy]
#5744817 - 06/13/06 02:53 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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How the hell are you going to not tune in? There is so much on, there is so much I need to know, I have to find out. There is so much silence here now, I have nothing to talk about. I need to know what they know so I can talk about what they talk about. I need to see what they see. I have the ability to distance myself. I won't get emotionally involved. I am the space-robot.
When I finish this coke, this cigarette and my winxp-installation is finished, TV is high on my schedule. High on my schedule. My schedule is the oh-so-very-illegal drug cannabis, which is impossible to get my hands on. Its a fucking war out there, its a war in here, its war war war on everything we don't like.
I AM NOT AFFECTED BY TELEVISION! I AM NORMAL! I DO SUPPORT THE TROOPS! I DO DISAGREE WITH BUSH ON MOST TOPICS, BUT STILL VOTE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE DESERVES ANOTHER CHANCE, AFTER ALL ITS JUST 4 MORE YEARS! I DO NOT SCREAM TO GET ATTENTION, I DO NOT RAISE MY VOICE IN TUNE WITH THE TELEVISION! I DON'T USE CAPS LOCK! I DON'T LIE! I AM FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD, I KNOW IT. SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT GOOD IS, SOME MORE. I FORGOT ... IS IT FEEDING THE POOR THAT WE BOMB, OR IS IT KILLING BUMS AND MEXICANS? I AM SO CONFUSED. I NEED TO WATCH SOME TELEVISION! O'REILLY HERE I COME. YOU ARE GOD.
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: slaphappy]
#5744842 - 06/13/06 03:27 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: tv the drug of the masses control of society [Re: AlteredAgain]
#5744844 - 06/13/06 03:28 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Aint life grand?
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