"Television is a weapon used to pacify...

[coloradodem2005]

...those who watch it into the living dead."


A quote that I found. What do you think? It seems true especially with respect to the news. I actually got this from Zack de la Rocha's site.

[Cerridwen]

1. I've seen TV compared to Huxley's Soma, from Brave New World

"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."

"Glum, Marx, glum." The clap on the shoulder made him start, look up. It was that brute Henry Foster. "What you need is a gramme of soma."

"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."

<snip>

http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/brave_new_world/3?term=soma

the argument being, we're entertaining ourselves into automatons who follow rather than question, who are more about being entertained than being intellectually stimulated, who are then easily indoctrinated as cogs in the wheels of power.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. I'll buy that

TV has a way of taking away the power to turn off TV.

[Hoping4Change]

3. I cut off cable after the US elections. I am a news junkie but I

became nausaeted with US news. I think I actually develped an aversion. Anyway not having cable is absolutely liberating. When I had cable it was next to impossible to turn the TV off. I am totally convinced TV is a drug.

[McKenzie]

4. you are closer to the truth than you think

a year or two ago there was an article in New Scientist (or possibly another related journal) that looked at the effect of television on brain activity. Can't locate it though which is a pity. The article looked at how television made viewers more susceptible to subliminal messages etc. And, apparently watching television for long periods creates a state of mind similar to that required for brainwashing.

If you haven't seen this site you might like to browse the content.

http://www.tvturnoff.org/index.htm

I hate television with a vengeance.