On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 14:29:20 -0800 (PST), martin
wrote:
>On Feb 6, 11:03 am, Pisano wrote:
>> I couldn't have said it better myself:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_47eLGkA_I
>>
>> =-=
>>
>> "A classic axiom of propaganda is that people shouldn’t be allowed to
>> think too much about what the government is doing in their name. After
>> all, there’s 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.
>>
>> All the strong men of history would have given their eyeteeth to have
>> at their disposal the number and types of distractions available to
>> today’s 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’ve really got it'
>> - Dwelling for months on the minutiae of unsupported allegations of
>> impropriety, preferably .ual, of a celebrity personality
>>
>> With these noisy, banal distractions the forces promoting the general
>> 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."
>>
>> From: "Programming The Sheep", By Tim O’Shea (2007)
>
>Fine article.
>
>Martin
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