Television And The Hive Mind

Watch "outfoxed" avaliable from <a href="http://www.outfoxed.org/">http://www.outfoxed.org/</a> or your favourite bittorrent site. <br />
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Quite an interesting piece of how 'journalism' has turned to 'propaganda' far more effective than the old Soviet style was. People think it's 'news' when really it's bold faced propaganda. And it's spreading. <br />
<p>---<br>"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill <br />

While I think the majority of people have figured out that the news isn't, 'the news' anymore; it still seems that people watch and expect to get some truth. The more you read alternative material the more that 'the news' becomes rather like a side show. I find The Daily Show, which is satire and humour more newsworthy, although U.S. info mostly, than regular news. Same as Canadian, Air Farce, Rick Mercer etc., you don't have to try to find the hidden meaning.

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

"outfoxed" has a very interesting solution at the end. Do something about it. Write to the editor or manager of a station if you don't like the programming. Demonstrate in numbers.

When one small town, which had only 1 local station which was taken over by ClearChannel - they applied for their own license, and set up their own local station. With local news, with local people. Anyone could come to the station (in someone's garage), take the mic and play any music they wanted to.


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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

"What forbids us to tell the truth, laughingly?"--Horace, Satires, I.24

hi whelan, the problem with television: watching doesn't come with a waiver, re: the dangerous mind altering effects. The second thing are the commercials. Many of the products are dangerous to our health and our environment. Television content is PUSHED on the viewer, including your beloved CBC.

As a budding politician get to the root of the problems of television watching in our society. The multitudes of class II diabetic kids will one day like to know.

I think that you are giving the public too much credit to say that people watch the news and can tell the difference between farce and fact. Honestly, maybe it is clear to you how bias most new agencies are, but to most, I highly doubt it.

"Every day, millions upon millions of human beings sit down at the same time to watch the same football game, the same mini-series, the same newscast. And where might all this shared experience and uniformity of thought be taking us?"

Iraq, Afghanistan, maybe Syria, or Iran and where ever else greed and righteousness disguised as safety and freedom will lead us.

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When an invasion can bring a country its freedom then unconsciousness is true happiness.

in reference to writing the programmer to
"do something about it"

i'll say something else: In 'Television and the Hive Mind'

'The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates- thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit.'

"do something about it" indeed. How 'bout turning the mirror on yourself, and kick the habit. Writing to the programmer to change the program ain't gonna cut it, you're still the slave

I tend to agree with you. About two years ago I was at a bar in Cammore, in the Canadian Rockies, watching a hypnotist. He worked himself through 12 people, including me, before he had 5 people to immerse into a hypnotic state. He had trouble with people over 30, and the two asian girls, but the young white people were a snap. On another note, I've lost several people to the 'idiot box', long time friends from high school, and even some of my family. I was able to save my wife, however, but she latched on to the Jehovah Witness scam. I guess some people just need to have their hands held. Frustrating to say the least.

Amen. People are idiots. Let's face it.

Some of us (i.e. Vive readers) may form little groups where we talk and discuss geopolitics, environmental issues, government, etc. We may become convinced, through our discussions, that the world is waking up and that some sort of a revolution is brewing. That people are becoming aware. Conscious. While this may be somewhat true, I think this "movement" is far smaller than we'd like to believe. So many people I know are completely in the dark. They literally have no clue. They're completely plugged into television and consumer culture. And they literally don't see it. I can try to explain it to them, but their responses make it blatently clear that they don't grasp the big picture. They are the majority. The vast majority.

I used to have hope, or at least the idea that if there was to be a mass cultural shift, the majority of the population would be partaking in it. That they would see the truth and be compelled to combat it for the good of us all. I no longer believe that to be true. If any change is to be brought about, it's going to be brought on by small, organized groups littered through out the oblivious populations. How they are to achieve this goal... no clue. Escalating acts of civil disobedience? Doubt it.

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Revolution.

No, I am the consumer. That is what television networks understand. If I chose to pay for cable, and therefore pay for programming and as the consumer I write editors or whomever is in charge of content that I am unsatisfied with the bias or inaccuracies of something, that is my right.

If enough people write or picket their front doors, the business that is television will start to listen. You can also choose to express your opinion with your wallet, as I have, but then you don't get the right to complain about content you don't pay for.


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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

What is needed is a revolutionary evolution of the peoples' psyche and spirit which must be forged within the deeper reaches of their fuzzily vague semi-consciousness. It will take a severe alteration of their perception of reality to catalyze this required universal reaction. The global police state has been put in place to prevent the revolutions that will inevitably result from just such a future awakening, but in the meantime we can chip away at the ignorance, little by little, by presenting our primordial truths as best we can, all the while resisting the beasts.

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Michael
GlobalDemocracyProject.ca

<p>Another good short documentary is "Independent Media in a time of war". <p>I believe you can watch it for free online at <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/static/IMIATOW.shtml"><b>democracynow.org</b></a> <p>Kevin<p>---<br>"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." <br />
--Bertrand Russell

Well, we still vote Liberal or Conservative (those of us who vote) in the vain hope that either one will actually do something relevant for Canadians. We've had decades of it, and we still haven't learned.

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RickW

Well, be fair, there was no other party to vote for, except the NDP, who was literally a party run by unelectable people, and women at that--in the last 15 years, after 15 years of suffering under Ed Broadbent who screwed us in the free-trade debate.

Honestly, women are great, but the NDP basically surrendered by choosing 2 women as leaders, after bypassing guys like Jim Laxer in the past who would have given the party radical backbone.

I honestly think even women are less likely to vote for a female candidate.

oost oneiric, I often think the same thing, and then someone surprises me, but peolple are out there--but yeah, educated minority.....seriously though, it's apathy, not knowing what to do, which the doomsayers help create.