"More and more human beings live in vast urban environments surrounded by other human beings and the creation of human beings. The natural world.the traditional source of self-awareness is increasingly absent.
Furthermore, within the last century we have come to live increasingly in a compelling world defined by electronic media. These media have evolved a pace that is utterly alien to our true natures. It is bewildering to live in a world of ten second spots, each one urging us to buy something, do something, or to think something. Human beings in the past were not so assaulted.
And I think this constant assault has made us pliable in a certain unhealthy way. Cut off from direct experience. Cut off from our own feelings, and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own"--Michael Crichton, "Travels" , Ballantine Books, 1998
I haven't watched TV for several years. We have a TV set, but only watch movies
or recorded programs--no live TV. Prior to finding the off button, I increasingly felt
I was being programmed and manipulated as to what to think, do or believe. They (TV producers) were conditioning me to believe and accept as normal and natural all sorts of things that I had previously rejected, such as inter-racial marriage, co-habitation without marriage, incredible profanity that added nothing to the plot or story, females in macho roles, and constant politically correct verbage and pictures.
When the North Koreans did this it was called "brain washing" i.e. repetitive exposure
to propaganda critical to patriotic opinions.
You can tell those who are TV junkies by the opinions they hold and the ignorance of
financial, global and political affairs. They think, speak and act the "party line" .
With Love and Kindness,
THE HATMAN
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