TELEVISION IS A CONTROL MECHANISM
when you really think about it watching television is a funny thing. people sit there and stare blankly into/at a screen with lights and sounds for hours and hours under the illusion of interaction. let's step back and view this phenomenon from a different angle/perspective. there are at any given moment millions/billions of people staring at these screens burning their precious time on Earth while simultaneously being programmed how to think, react, feel, and act. what is even more troubling is the realization that all these people are being programmed how to not think, not react, not feel, and not act by default. at least when we spend our lives in front of a computer screen we can have meaningful interactions, create, inspire, share, and grow together.
this is why i feel that what we are going through right now is a war between the television programmers and the internet as a whole. the television programmers are furious because they are losing people's attention/focus and the reason this upsets them is that they are no longer in control. for example when people first step away from their television they actually will have withdrawal symptoms similar to a drug addict or alcoholic when they first step away from those habits. i am not saying that all drugs and alcohol are bad, what i am saying is that whether it is a drug or a television when people become blindly dependent on anything they are allowing whatever it is they are dependent upon to change who they are as well as who they could be into what someone else likely wants them to be for their own personal reasons whatever they may be. this is more often than not a bad thing because they do not respect you if they desire to control/use/own you.
#TelevisionIsAControlMechanism