http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6CgotCUtMo

One nation
under God
has turned into
one nation under the influence
of one drug
[chorus:]
Television the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
(2x)
T.V. it
satellite links
our United...

On Aug 30, 7:54 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

On Aug 30, 11:36 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:

Fred might say the situation is absurd. The situation geography is
changed by the discovery of electronic media. Everything is
mainstreamed in a way that everybody in the family can view it safely.
What is the deal with the potholes? Seems more like you watch tv and
reflect what it does to people. Try not watching anything for a month,
will you go insane?

No Sense of Place: The Impact of
Electronic Media on Social Behavior
by Joshua Meyrowitz
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019504231X/

No Sense of Place JOSHUA MEYROWITZ - 1986

Preface

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:54:22 -0700, turtoni wrote:

Television needs a more sophisticated treatment at least here on this NG.

Immortalist opens this door.

Television is programing and programming is done by people.

A number of years ago a essay (TV IS DOPE) stated that Commercial TV
physically triggered the brain much the same way a drug does, so this
drug aspect is not entirely or merely metaphorical.

The damage that commercial TV has done to the US, at least, can not be
overstated. Done not necessarily with intention but with willful
ignorance and denial, at best.

Ed Murrows 'box of lights and wires' speech summed it up.

This instrument can teach.
It can illuminate
and it can even inspire.
But it can do so only to the extent
that humans are determined to use it
towards those ends.
Otherwise, it is merely wires and lights in a box.

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