Kill Your TV - Quote And Thought Of The Day - 11/10/17

~ Charles Bukowski

When electronic hallucinations became affordable for millions of Americans, the most violent, murderous, and insane decade followed.

Coincidence?

Can you imagine, suddenly, families who ate dinner and talked frequently, who played games and entertained one another, who read books often, and thus, had healthier family units, healthier forebrains (critical faculty), were suddenly sitting in front of boxes of flickering light patterns for hours a day, absorbing high frequency light, destroying pineal function, killing melatonin production, disturbing circadian rhythm, degrading right hemispheric faculty, being thrust into a brainwave state previously only achieved through hypnosis and sleep?

And while in this state, they were then sold visions of utopias, free love, gender bending, new age religions and science as religion, all only achievable through collectivism.

No, this couldn't be what began the mass psyche operation that catapulted people into mass consumerism, depression, schizophrenia, hyper sexuality, and obesity. Spending hours a day having messages of hyper unreality psychically downloaded to our minds was of no consequence.

It may feel good while watching TV/passive media, because for the moment we do escape, but the coming down effects are what cause depression. As with any other drugs high, every minute of these beautiful and fantastic people, places, things, and situations ingested makes the world we come back to less appealing. This is the number one reason for modern societal depression, and most of the reason we desire and consume like mad.

Abstain from it for while, and your girlfriend who may be a 7 today, suddenly becomes an 8.

With love,
Doc