One thought (caused by a message in an email I sent yesterday) got me on the subject of media brainwashing.
In my teens, I became mentally engaged with the world of punk rock. A band (for those of us who remember them) called 'Crass' told about how we were government fodder with no minds of our own, born to work and die and as system wanted. This had a profound effect on me and my perceptions became re-tuned with a sudden new understanding, which forked my lifepath and led me to be who I am today.
I stopped reading newspapers, for news media is by far the worst of all. Most obvious is the way media decides who is useful for them, these people can do no wrong, loved by everyone, airbrushed to perfection, we are told who to like, the same as we are told who not to like.
My abstinance from reading magazines and newspapers, took away my knowledge of celebrities and private lives of anyone in the public eye, and many news stories.
Unable to avoid television, I viewed the adverts with a crystal clear vision of sly, deceptive methods and underhand selling techniques. The fake smiling families, the comfortable clean homes with the slim perfect mother baking a cake. TV telling us what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, what we should own, what we should look like, what to think.
I watched people around me doing what they were told, oblivious to the fact they were thinking what they had been brainwashed to.
I spent some time trying to point out the brainwashing to anyone who would listen, but gave up after realising my thought patterns must be functioning in a minority.
I didnt watch the news, any celebrities that I did see on TV, I recognised, but couldnt tell you what they were called or even what they were famous for half the time!
This freedom allowed me to form my own opinions, made me feel in control of myself, I took this theology into my daily life and rarely formed a bad opinion of anyone, unless they had done something personally directly to me.
I left myself verbally diasabled when it came to general workplace chit chat, as I couldnt always join in the conversations, but I soon realised that I didnt actually enjoy talking to people who were happy to be unthinking about the latest celebrity or public figure, people who in most cases were highly opinionated in the moral goings on of people they were never likely to know, while they themselves were seriously in need of being as moralistic about their own lives and the way the treated people close to them.
Mostly I felt like I was looking in on a different world filled with simple people, who seemed happy in ignorance. There has been many times, I've wished I could be like them, content to be unquestioning, content to live in the same place, doing the same things, with the same people, year in year out, year in year out .......
I often wonder what humanity would be like without the constant brainwashing that covertly engulfs the western world.
Would the greed of consumerism be replaced by another evil?
Would people start to deal with the problems in their own lives instead of hiding behind the 'tuts' of morality directed at 'Jerry Springer' type shows and celebrities?
I myself, feel people would be happier just for the sheer fact they wouldnt have to live up to the impossible ideals set by the Big Brother.
How many feel the shame of not being the right body size, not having the glamorous job, not having the latest home fashion. Children are bullied for not wearing the right brand trainers.
The internet is the font of all knowledge if used wisely, but is a deadly unknown entity in its future development, it will take and already has in certain ways, brain manipulation and control to new levels.
How do i know this? Because even 'I' the long time media anarchist has a FACEBOOK account.
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In my teens, I became mentally engaged with the world of punk rock. A band (for those of us who remember them) called 'Crass' told about how we were government fodder with no minds of our own, born to work and die and as system wanted. This had a profound effect on me and my perceptions became re-tuned with a sudden new understanding, which forked my lifepath and led me to be who I am today.
I stopped reading newspapers, for news media is by far the worst of all. Most obvious is the way media decides who is useful for them, these people can do no wrong, loved by everyone, airbrushed to perfection, we are told who to like, the same as we are told who not to like.
My abstinance from reading magazines and newspapers, took away my knowledge of celebrities and private lives of anyone in the public eye, and many news stories.
Unable to avoid television, I viewed the adverts with a crystal clear vision of sly, deceptive methods and underhand selling techniques. The fake smiling families, the comfortable clean homes with the slim perfect mother baking a cake. TV telling us what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, what we should own, what we should look like, what to think.
I watched people around me doing what they were told, oblivious to the fact they were thinking what they had been brainwashed to.
I spent some time trying to point out the brainwashing to anyone who would listen, but gave up after realising my thought patterns must be functioning in a minority.
I didnt watch the news, any celebrities that I did see on TV, I recognised, but couldnt tell you what they were called or even what they were famous for half the time!
This freedom allowed me to form my own opinions, made me feel in control of myself, I took this theology into my daily life and rarely formed a bad opinion of anyone, unless they had done something personally directly to me.
I left myself verbally diasabled when it came to general workplace chit chat, as I couldnt always join in the conversations, but I soon realised that I didnt actually enjoy talking to people who were happy to be unthinking about the latest celebrity or public figure, people who in most cases were highly opinionated in the moral goings on of people they were never likely to know, while they themselves were seriously in need of being as moralistic about their own lives and the way the treated people close to them.
Mostly I felt like I was looking in on a different world filled with simple people, who seemed happy in ignorance. There has been many times, I've wished I could be like them, content to be unquestioning, content to live in the same place, doing the same things, with the same people, year in year out, year in year out .......
I often wonder what humanity would be like without the constant brainwashing that covertly engulfs the western world.
Would the greed of consumerism be replaced by another evil?
Would people start to deal with the problems in their own lives instead of hiding behind the 'tuts' of morality directed at 'Jerry Springer' type shows and celebrities?
I myself, feel people would be happier just for the sheer fact they wouldnt have to live up to the impossible ideals set by the Big Brother.
How many feel the shame of not being the right body size, not having the glamorous job, not having the latest home fashion. Children are bullied for not wearing the right brand trainers.
The internet is the font of all knowledge if used wisely, but is a deadly unknown entity in its future development, it will take and already has in certain ways, brain manipulation and control to new levels.
How do i know this? Because even 'I' the long time media anarchist has a FACEBOOK account.
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