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Date Posted: 20:00:01 01/05/04 Mon
Author: Ex-NLP Person
Subject: Re: Weird Stuff, Eh?
In reply to: SYNTARSUS 's message, "Re: Weird Stuff, Eh?" on 15:53:35 12/26/03 Fri



I agree with you, TV is mental poison... It is like toxic waste for the mind! When you think about all of the garbage that fills people's subconscious, not just ads, but the nons-stop spiel of corporate "agit-prop" disinformation, and hackneyed crap spouted by quacks like Dr. Phil, it is no wonder that the population of the USA is becoming more and more stupid. I have often thought that if aliens came from outer space and made it impossible for TV's to work for a year, how much better the world might become...



I hate how TV uses words and images to manipulate
>people's minds and emotions. Commercials, especially.
>I mean what does "I feel Coke" mean? What if everyone
>started talking like a commercial message? They would
>all sound like a bunch of babbling, incoherent
>lunatics! That's what commercials sound like and look
>like to me . . . insanity. We'd have people talking
>really fast so that you would have no idea what they
>were talking about - and neither would they, but
>merely THINK that they knew what they were talking
>about . . . but it would only be in mental fragments.
>Just like in that book '1984' where people talked as
>if they were quacking ("Quack, quack, quack!") and it
>was called 'duckspeak'. Wait a minute! Aren't people
>already becoming like that????
>
>No wonder the newer generations are having a hard time
>concentrating, reading, spelling, and finding creative
>things to do. Their brains are filled with a load of
>insignificant crap! That's what I think TV does to a
>person's brain. It fills the vaccum of the mind with a
>bunch of incoherant, fragmented, and unimportant
>nonsense! Instead of thinking for one's self and
>having one's own ideas about themselves, people, the
>world, and those existentially higher thoughts, the
>television continues to put the screenwriter's or
>director's or whomever's thoughts & ideas into the
>veiwers' heads and can affect many people all together
>at the one time.
>
> Einstein said that he never bothered to memorise
>certain things such as phone numbers because he didn't
>want to clog his brain with unimportant junk. He
>wanted there to still be enough room in his head to
>memorise the important stuff that he actually needed
>to know.
>
>- SYNTARSUS

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