He who controls TV..Controls the masses

[Ocean Breeze]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11242.htm


this would be the core issue of many things now...

 

[Ocean Breeze]

excerpt from article and question:

Keepers at the Gate

He Who Controls Television Controls the Masses

By Manuel Valenzuela

12/07/05 "ICH" -- -- In this age of modernity and technology, where the television monitor has become the center of the average American household, from cradle to grave acting as surrogate parent, teacher, role model and as influencer of human thought, it should come as no surprise that entire populations can be controlled with such facility and efficiency, turning once thinking humans into grazing sheeple. For in today’s day and age, he who controls television controls the masses, and he who controls the masses controls the nation.

Television has become, quite simply, the greatest tool of mass manipulation and thought control civilization has ever seen, an incarnation of the myriad of myths, fables, fictions, story telling, theologies and all other forms of ‘bread and circus’ history’s elite have concocted from which to retain power and control the lower echelons of man’s corrosive pyramid of hierarchy. In the television the elite have found the greatest weapon of mass control, seemingly able to dictate culture, politics, events, thought and destiny from the moment of birth to the time of death. It can even be said that it is they who can determine reality in twenty-first century America, magically making history disappear, altering the past, changing the present and molding the future. Reality is what they want it to be, shifting culture to their dictates, conditioning minds to fit their goals, pushing society in the direction that most benefits them and erasing from memory any manifestation that does not correspond to the reality they wish to create.

The ruling elite can, through clandestine programming and seemingly innocuous entertainment, influence the way millions of minds think, invariably transforming free thought into shackled reasoning. Over decades of methodical molding and development, beginning at the earliest possible age of a human being, those who control television oftentimes succeed in altering and indeed controlling the opinions, beliefs and thoughts of a person. Thus, the goals and views of the elite are transmuted onto those who stand not to benefit by the beliefs they now possess and the thoughts they have been brainwashed to accept.

This silent conditioning, achieved willingly by society, allowed inside the home by millions of families, absorbed into the mainstream and transported over the airwaves to all corners of the nation, creates entire armies of sentient beings conditioned never to question authority or the actions of governance. Over decades of assimilation and dumbed-down programming, the population comes to accept that fate has accorded them the role of sheeple in the games of social Darwinism and human caste systems. Thus, the interests of the elite and the control of the powerful are allowed to continue uninterrupted, without protest, dissent or challenge, assured of dominance, slavery and enduring reign over the sheeple of America.

Question: How many people on here could give up their TVS??

elaborate if ya like....

thanks...


( my reply: I COULD.......and thinking of doing just that . )

 

[jimmoyer]

Most people don't watch propaganda.

They watch entertainment. And of course propaganda packaged beneath the entertainment is a wonderful thing and the ratings will show whether it's a hit or miss with the public.

None of us are immune, no matter how much we condemn it.

And none of us are immune because of our nature.

 

[the caracal kid]

i got rid of cable and satellite a few years ago. now whenever i stay at a hotel or other location with tv, if i turn it on i see nothing has improved and turn it off again within a matter of minutes.

i still have my tv though for watching dvds.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Re: RE: He who controls TV..Controls the masses

Most people don't watch propaganda.

They watch entertainment. And of course propaganda packaged beneath the entertainment is a wonderful thing and the ratings will show whether it's a hit or miss with the public.

None of us are immune, no matter how much we condemn it.

And none of us are immune because of our nature.

jim.......how about an answer to the question.....Could you give up your TV.....??

I know of people who refuse to get a TV......or if they have one , don't subscribe to anything but use it to watch videos of choice......and that is their entertainment.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Re: RE: He who controls TV..Controls the masses

i got rid of cable and satellite a few years ago. now whenever i stay at a hotel or other location with tv, if i turn it on i see nothing has improved and turn it off again within a matter of minutes.

i still have my tv though for watching dvds.

this is exactly what many friends of mine have done and are doing now. I am considering it too....

 

[jjw1965]

I use mine mostly for entertainment (Dvds ect.) The news networks are garbage, as is most of the programing.

 

[MMMike]

I use mine mostly for entertainment (Dvds ect.) The news networks are garbage, as is most of the programing.

If you check out a number of different (mainstream) sources, be it TV, radio, internet, you will get a general sense of what is going on. To rely soley on the wacko sources on the Internet is folly, though. Its great if it makes you question what you hear elsewhere, but too many people swallow it hook line and sinker as gospel.

 

[the caracal kid]

indeed mmmike, i cringe whenever i hear somebody say something is true because "it says so on a website".

 

[jjw1965]

I use mine mostly for entertainment (Dvds ect.) The news networks are garbage, as is most of the programing.

If you check out a number of different (mainstream) sources, be it TV, radio, internet, you will get a general sense of what is going on. To rely soley on the wacko sources on the Internet is folly, though. Its great if it makes you question what you hear elsewhere, but too many people swallow it hook line and sinker as gospel.

Agreed, I never said I relied on wacko websites, there are some excellent news sources out there. I just don't pay much attention to FOX, CNN, ect.
The same goes for sitcoms and the like, I just don't think they make shows the way they used to. so I Rent what movies I want to see.

 

[jimmoyer]

"jim.......how about an answer to the question.....Could you give up your TV.....?? "


I could live without it. Often do. But I do like access to some of the movies. In the 90s, Bravo channel used to show a lot of avant guard or odd movies like the real Bollywood movies from India ---- and they're GREAT movies !!! Not the poor facsimile Hollywood tried to imitate Bollywood in "Moulon Rouge".

And then before cable, I loved the Sunday morning news programs.

But most of all ever since a kid I've loved the romance of radio, faraway stations at night, odd programs, Larry Glick of WBZ Boston (long gone) that reached 38 states at night, and shortwave radio.

I like the freedom to access if desired, but not beholding to it, and not believing everything, but reading between the lines.

George Orwell predicted what happened in the Communist countries with their blunt and obvious propaganda, but he didn't predict that the REAL
BIG BROTHER is not government, but rather the impulse of the people unwittingly is to create BIG BROTHER.

The evil of mass control and ideology is you and me --- we the people.

Parents want to know where their children every minute and so the cell phone, and the bosses want to know if you are in stall number 3 in the bathroom, and video cameras are placed on the streets to stop red light travellers ---- all for our SAFETY and all for our CONVENIENCE.

 

[jjw1965]

The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb.
This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.
~Albert Einstein~

 

[Cosmo]

RE: He who controls TV..C

baa baa ... I'm a total TV addict. We have a whole roster of shows we watch. Of course I'm too hyper to just sit and watch TV so I also quilt or crochet or bead or something while I am glued to the tube, so at least that productive!

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb.
This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.
~Albert Einstein~

that Einstein character was one clever dude. :wink:

 

[gd]

Media sways the masses in more ways than blunt propaganda.

I can't turn on the TV without wanting to shout at it.

Take something like how the media treats women, women use to portrayed as air headed dotting wives, now its the complete opposite and a vast number of people simply accept it like sheep.

 

[jimmoyer]

I wonder if anybody believes they are controlled by TV on this board ?

I wonder if everybody believes the other guy on this board is controlled by TV and just doesn't know it ?

I wonder if opinions are like pets. Don't lose your pet.
It loves you. It will never leave you, unless it goes after that squirrel.

 

[Alberta'sfinest]

RE: He who controls TV..C

The simplest explaination is that people are like a sponge. Everything that we absorb has an effect on how we'll think in the future, so if you control what we absorb you can control how we'll think in the future. I used to be one of those people who did just believe everything I heard on TV and radio, now I'm skeptical and analyze what they're saying. I'm more concerned with the source and purpose of information now than the information its self.

 

[jimmoyer]

Hey pssst, pass me that remote control.