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but just a few. The rest was crap and I ended-up channel surfing and falling into that hypnotic, alpha-state that they rely on where you do a media meditation to fill time, numb the pain, escape.
I know how many people are addicted to the media heroin, from middle-class to poor. It takes a bit of courage and a sincere attempt to quit, but there is so much more to life. Besides, I tell them, you can do the Net and get shows you like, or read, or even, if you are feeling the goosebumps and sweat of cold turkey, buy some DVD's and build your library if you can't go without. Just don't keep paying them for their corporate overthrow and having to watch commercials for that price, as well, in high volume.
At least, back in the day, we could get free TV and justify the endless onslaught of commercials with the fact that they payed for the TV. Now, the addicts watch and watch and pay and pay and get half the time filled with being sold and told what to do, think and want. That's not a deal, it is a blatant ripoff and they say drugs are bad for you?
I keep fantasizing about people unplugging the coaxial from the back of their heads in droves. That would be a real revolution and signal sent that would be hard to ignore. But it is the new opiate of the masses and serves the corporate masters well. If people saw that and canceled their cable/satellite now, it would be a revolution in itself. Some do and will. Don't think that television makes us all lemmings who follow and comply and have to have it at such a great expense, both financial and psychological.
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