Check out this very powerful documentary on media manipulation and the truth behind "public opinion". You can stream from the website as well as download.
Watching television while waiting for the world to end. Sucked in and supplanted with images and entertainment designed to emote me, brainwash me, control me with a steady drip of intoxicatingly delicious, mindless garbage and false fear. There is no forest, only trees...
The credits rolled, images of Flight 815's wreckage solemnly passing through our eyes. The room was silent. Earlier in the night, I predicted the finale of LOST to be accompanied by silly, drunk applause; apt for a rowdy bunch in their 20's and 30's who've enjoyed the ride--for the most part--since the beginning.
We unplugged our television from cable/network/satellite five years ago. We only watch selected movies on it that we rent at the local video store, and if the movie selection gets any worse, we'll probably stop that too.
About a year ago, my girlfriend and I both thought I was a little crazy for becoming obsessed with Wife Swap, an ABC reality show that I found through its syndicated version on Lifetime. I don't normally watch Lifetime (I don't even have cable TV), but the show was on at a family get-together around Christmastime.
I feel like everything I've been working on is suddenly coming together with a new clarity. On March 18 NPR ran an excellent interview with Tom Burrell, who worked in the advertising industry for 40 years and just published a book called Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority.
Yesterday I took my little sister to the mall to pick up a DVD and look for anything related to Alice in Wonderland. She's really, really excited about the upcoming remake -- and it makes me sad to think that this younger generation won't be as critical of these so-called "films," these CGI landfills. But I've complained enough about that, and I'm trying to be a good big brother.
If you accept nuclear power plants, you also accept a techno-scientific-industrial-military elite. Without these people in charge, you could not have nuclear power. You and I getting together with a few friends could not make use of nuclear power.
Recently I've been reading alot about the FCC's recent reprovisioning of frequencies currently allocated to the (soon to be) former analog UHF TV band known as the 700mhz band and auctioning them off to giant communications infrastructure providers like Verizon for their own for-profit use.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
