“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville…
For decades many critics of broadcast television labeled it ‘The idiot box’. As Ed Norton said in a Honeymooners episode “Maybe the phrase fits.’” Well, today, perhaps more than ever before, we all must be idiots to continue viewing it. Let’s first examine the news and news talk shows that seem to almost go 24/7…
Starting with Gutenberg’s printing press, then Thomas Edison’s motion picture camera and the introduction of celluloid and the silver screen, and later the cathode ray tube – a select few media institutions, and the men behind them, have enjoyed monolithic monopoly over the information we see and hear. Their machine is awesome and seemingly unstoppable, and…
With the advent of the popularity of television in the 1930s and 1940s, for the first time in history, the banksters had an instrument through which the masses could be controlled effectively, immediately, and effortlessly. Television is by far, the most devastating brainwashing device ever unleashed upon humanity. Ironically, the BBC, upon which Orwell modelled…
At the heart of the social insanity, mindless acquiescence to authority, and automatic compliance with any and every new government rule or regulation, is a deliberate effort to dumb down the population. It takes place in the halls of our educational institutions, and it comes home with us at night to our television screens. According to educational…
