On Feb 7, 6:29=A0am, martin wrote:
> On Feb 6, 11:03=A0am, Pisano wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I couldn't have said it better myself:
>
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dx_47eLGkA_I
>
> > =3D-=3D
>
> > "A classic axiom of propaganda is that people shouldn=92t be allowed to
> > think too much about what the government is doing in their name. After
> > all, there=92s more to life than politics, right? So while the power
> > group has its cozy little war going on, the people need to have their
> > attention diverted.
>
> > =A0All the strong men of history would have given their eyeteeth to hav=
e
> > at their disposal the number and types of distractions available to
> > today=92s regimes:
>
> > - TV sports, its orchestrated frenzy and spectacle
> > - Super Sunday
> > - An endless succession of unspeakably boring, inane movies, short on
> > plot, long on CGI
> > - The wanton .less flash of MTV with its uninspired lack of talent,
> > a study in split second phony images
> > - Colossally dull TV programs which serve the secondary purpose of
> > instilling proper robot attitudes into people who have little other
> > instruction in life values
> > - The artistic Mojave of modern music, with its soulless cyber-
> > droning, a constant quest for the nadir of reptilian brain
> > stimulation, devoid of lyrical competence, instrumental proficiency,
> > or passion
> > - The ever-retreating promise of financial success, switched now to
> > the trappings and toys that suggest success, available to anyone with
> > a credit card
> > - Organized superstitions of all varieties, with their requisite
> > pseudo-spiritual trappings
> > - The constant dramatization of crimes and 'issues' throughout the
> > world whose collective goal is the humble and grateful acknowledgement
> > of 'how good we=92ve really got it'
> > - Dwelling for months on the minutiae of unsupported allegations of
> > impropriety, preferably .ual, of a celebrity personality
>
> > =A0With these noisy, banal distractions the forces promoting the genera=
l
> > decline in intelligence and awareness jubilantly engulf us on all
> > sides. Media science holds the advantage: as people get dumber and
> > dumber year by year it gets easier and easier to keep them dumb. The
> > only challenge is that their threshold keeps getting lower. So in
> > order to keep their attention, messages have to become more obvious
> > and blatant, taking nothing for granted."
>
> > =A0From: "Programming The Sheep", By Tim O=92Shea (2007)
>
> Fine article.
>
> Martin- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Providing sports arenas came from the industrial revolution in
England, to provide entertainment for the workers in their back to
back housing estatees. A good addition.
As far as TV celebrity impropriety goes, back in the early part of the
last century, the impropriety existed in the streets. Back street
abortions because of the shame that went with pre marriage pregnancy
because of the 'gossiping tongues'.Better on the TV to meet the built
in need for the working class to pursue their fantasies.Lotteries are
a wonderful medium on that basis
Keeping the masses in debt is also nothing new. They are more likely
to 'toe the line' with their employer when they are so. Of course,
'back then' hunger was a pretty good deterrent.
Other than that, I think the article is on track, but more to do with
biochemistry than psychology, such as the ownership of the psychiatric
industry, by Bigpharma, and their sponsoring of ever growing expansion
of drug dependency, and such practices of poisoning the water supply
with a waste product from the aluminium industry, (which was used by
the Nazi on Jewish ghettos to make the population more 'compliant'),
all under the guise of reducing the incidence of teeth cavities.Add to
that how political influence (Rumsfeld again!),allowed such poisons as
aspartane into the food system, and Monsanto (he was involved in both)
becoming Time Mag's "company of the year", the results of the 'game'
pale into insignificance.
Interesting to read along with the recent threads on 'choice'.
BOfL
|
