“The serfs accept dhiminitude for ball games and reality TV.”
I travel frequently on business to third world communist countries to which we have exported good paying middle class factory jobs. Driving through both rural and urban areas in the evening I notice that many squalid huts have televisions. Religion may have been the opiate of the masses in earlier centuries. The twenty first century masses in developed and undeveloped countries are mesmerized by the boob tube. It makes the job of ruling much easier when humans can escape to an imaginary place by staring at a sheet of glass.
Great post.
As a child with that fraud Cronkite it was pretty bad. I think sat/cable TV consolidated even more power because the roughly 5 networks control 99% of all the channels.
Sports back in the 1970s had far less politics. The NBA, NFL, MBL, NCAA and ESPN have such an agenda for Obama. The PGA tour and TV endlessly fawned over Tiger and still do. There is a huge agenda behind almost everything.
People may claim Fox News but the Saudi investment and Murdoch backing Tony Blair who launched the islamification of the UK and Murdoch backed it.
I think post-2008 election people shrugged like Atlas. Newspapers and magazines imploded but TV remains. I cancelled it a year ago because I finally got the full connection of the control.
Now he wants control of the Internet helped by Google and the phones companies etc. He controls banking, health care, the internet and now energy.
TV is used to control the masses. People will trash the GOP but if you come out of the crowd then they go in full attack mode. The Dems control the media and all the dirt. Something small and they will destroy a Repub. If you play ball and are a Democrat like McCain, Snowe, Graham-nesty - they fawn over you.
TV and media hype replaced religion in the West and non-islamic countries.
So should we simply ban television then? Maybe in 20 years from now the same things will be said of the internet—i.e.: roads that will lead to serfdom.