When the mainstream news rolls out a new topic, I always ask myself; "why do they want me to think this?" It seems like a logical approach to any propaganda, so I'm always surprised when people take mainstream news stories any other way. Swimming in a sea of information, but with whale-sized pharmaceutical companies and oil industries curating all of the news stories favoring corporate agendas, why would anybody think otherwise? Shouldn't there be some concern? 

Should we immediately kill our TVs? 

When I asked this question to my TV-viewing friends, most of them would say "Shhh!" at me because I'd interrupted some announcement or a breaking story, and the rest of the people I asked didn't even hear my question, no matter how I worded it, nodding absently towards their TV sets as if I didn't exist at all. 

 

Reality Filter

Few will look away from their TVs, even after I have pointed out how news organizations and all of the other hard-working social engineers keep their viewers in a bubble of disinformation, and how this reality filter had been depriving the viewers of a more holistic view of the real world, depriving them of knowledge. I suggested that real people share real information, and that conversely, the mainstream TV's version of reality is often misleading, to say the least. If they'd heard what I said, they might have listened, but since I wasn't on the TV saying it, my words had no authority in their world.

Turn it off?

 "Kill your TV!" sounds pretty violent, maybe a gentler approach would work, so I decided-- during a commercial break--  to suggest turning the TV off for a few minutes, but apparently a television is like an aquarium full of exotic fish: if you turn it off, the fish will die. The TV stays on.  

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TV History 

The original TV, even before black-and-white television, was a fire. Everybody stared at it, and it was great. Somebody might tell a story while they all gazed into the ever-changing coals, and the whole family could gather around and enjoy it for hours.

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Later, following the inevitable invention of popcorn, roofs, and walls, viewers found ways to bring the fire indoors. The stone hearth became the coffee table, coffee was soon invented, and the only thing missing was the remote control unit. (This is a rough history, some of the chronology of things may be a bit off here.)

  

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The Blue Glow

The modern TV is like a fireplace without the warmth, and it wants to capture our attention with it's subtle flicker, while always sucking vital oxygen from the room. I've never seen it turned off at some people's places, as the blue glow of submission bathes their rooms in constant propaganda, posing as the authority over all knowledge in that house. 

Driving through neighborhoods at night, every structure emits the vital blue light, and it's clear that the beings who are sitting in those houses are only there for a few hours in the evenings. It's apparent, therefore, that the structures were built just to house the television, and the humans are only there to gaze up at it silently for as long as they can, then in the morning they'll drive away again to go wherever it is that they live.

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Pull The Plug?

The modern version of news-flavored propaganda is now spewed from a very large television set-- an entire wall is usually devoted to it, and there are often two or three of them on in other rooms, blaring nonsense throughout the living quarters.  
One day when I was leaving a friend's house, I offered to pull the plug on the sinister mind-control device, but the look on their face told me not to even play. I think they growled at me, and I got out before it got physical-- I didn't like the idea of losing a friend when I was only trying to help out, so I had to pretend that I was just kidding.

I soon learned that people will not entertain the idea of killing their expensive TVs. Eventually, I learned that they are not amused about the idea of unplugging it as an alternative. And ultimately I learned that they won't even turn it off for a second. 

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