Mar 19, 2013

TV Controls, Audience Channeld

     TV 'Channels' the point of view. Sounds like a very narrowed and controlled point of view to me. And why wouldn't they want to control the audience's point of view? Stuff develops model of perfection and needs to be with it in the center of it, thus people go out and buy stuff to be it, makes profits for companies using desires.
     They're not kidding about people being slaves of media.
     You would think having a remote controller on your hand and 400 different channels from a glowing box sounds like a big control. But that is an utterly outrageous major underestimation of potentials of a human being.
     Just imagine. You have choices in your life about the number of atoms you're carrying on your body. And those boxes only has 400.
     TV could be a resourceful tool and a very powerful one capable of improve or overthrowing any individual on a couch. Use it if you cannot not use it. But limiting yourself is certainly not something you need too many occasion, I'm sure.
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  1. Leif Sturmanis Nordholm3/19/13, 1:32 PM

    But the Internet gives us so many more choices! If I watch TV, I have to wait around for commercials to be over, wait for my favorite program to come on, wait for the program to take a break so I can go and get popcorn... it's a massive inconvenience!

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    1. Temp Placement3/19/13, 3:21 PM

      I had a few talk about that a while ago. Usually I say something in the similar line of what you just said. But what they said isn't entire wrong either. They said wether it's TV or internet, it's still all Media. It's just way bigger. If you know what you're doing there's helluva benefits. But majority of people follows mainstream. And 99% of internet are all still a rotting pile trash, examples with Meme or YouTube.

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    2. Leif Sturmanis Nordholm3/19/13, 10:32 PM

      Yah. Memes are a sight gag. Gives people a little chuckle. But some people go CRAZY with them! But I wonder... doesn't EVERYONE have a 1% of the internet they like, and the rest that they consider a rotting pile of trash? I love the daily access to the news, research capability and social aspect the Internet provides. Every now and then I like to post things to social media on Canadian politics. Sometimes someone goes nuts and says they don't want to read about political opinions. But it's important to me, so I stomach LOLcats and cheesy pirates every three minutes on my feed. The benefit of being able to research and socialize every day (which I used to have to go to University to do) is much greater than the annoyance of ridiculous mind-fuzz.

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