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

>> Television the drug of the Nation

>
> 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.