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Anonymous Coward User ID: 860823 United States 01/10/2010 09:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | very good, but try to wake people up by posting on a messageboard doesn't work to well... all the anti-muslim types are still anti-muslim posters despite all the arguments debunking it, it's something that's very passionate and will create a such a negative emotional response... that's why it's called brainwashing. People don't want to see any other viewpoint, they put the blinders on. maybe a few will read the op's post and see how the media manipulates them. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 861471 United States 01/10/2010 09:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | very good, but try to wake people up by posting on a messageboard doesn't work to well... all the anti-muslim types are still anti-muslim posters despite all the arguments debunking it, it's something that's very passionate and will create a such a negative emotional response... that's why it's called brainwashing. People don't want to see any other viewpoint, they put the blinders on. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 860823maybe a few will read the op's post and see how the media manipulates them. I have been amazed that once you are aware of these techniques, you can actually watch them being used on you. If you read through it, then turn on the TV, it's all there in living color. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 831206 United States 01/11/2010 05:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | GLP follows this formula to a T. anytime there is a post supporting the agenda, it gets pinned, and then the thread keeps getting bumped and people come from out of nowhere to keep the conversation going, adding their "opinions" and promoting their cause. A post that goes against the "agenda" is bashed or ignored, depending on the best way to nullify it. It is amazing how many man hours promoting a cause are put in. |
:) User ID: 580924 Canada 01/11/2010 06:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Television is an interesting topic, because pretty much most of the population owns a TV and watches one on a regular basis. The idea of television is so ingrained into our society that to not watch it is to be an anomaly. To live in two worlds usually means to have given up most aspects of the media, including television. For myself, I haven’t had cable hookup since 1998. Nine years being TV-free, save for those times I’ve glimpsed it while traveling or while at work or in public. It’s nice. Watching television is an avenue for disengaging your mind where you sit in a trance state, absorbing what is presented to you on the screen, in between being bombarded with commercials telling you what to do and who to be. Here is a good summary of what my biggest peeves with TV are: 1. “Dream logic” and absurdity. Commercials – and even show plots – that increasingly make absolutely NO sense. Have you noticed this? It’s disjointed randomness slapped together, or people acting like buffoon clowns, not even remotely resembling anything going on in the real world. Here’s one interesting example of the current state of “dream logic” within TV show plots. Henry Makow felt that the plot was depraved; maybe so, but it was also completely absurd. ! The more I read, the worse it got, just disintegrating into complete nonsense. What does watching disjointed illogical (gross out/depraved) nuttiness do to people over time I wonder? Rhetorical question, of course. [On a side note – Kid’s cartoons also have to be noted as well. Comparing today’s cartoons with those of previous decades, the “animation” is often times second rate, with purposely ugly and assymetrical character features, and plots that play out in a spazzy, disjointed way. Hyper choppy movements, chaotic backgrounds, and lots of visual “noise.” And nothing happening in these cartoons really makes any sense. There’s no real coherent plot going on. Compare some of today’s cartoons to old cartoons, such as Scooby Doo, The Jetsons, Muppet Babies, The Flintstones, and so on. !! It all serves a very calculated purpose though – create scramble brain. When people are scrambled, they can’t think and be effective. I feel sorry for the kids born in the 90s and beyond, because they really got the short end of the stick with their entertainment. “Stuff” moved in to kick things up a few notches for them, not just with cartoons and television programs, but with their toys, video games, and everything in general. The cartoons and entertainment they watch is just one component of a mass attempt at brain scramble.] 2. Desensitization of the masses/Agendas. Recently during a trip to the northeast I was staying in a hotel room, giving me access to TV. I was a bit shocked to say the least at what I was seeing. A commercial featuring a couple in their mid to late 20s driving in a car – the car goes BUMP over something in the road. The guy driver is grinning from ear to ear. It turns out they just ran something over – the girlfriend asks, Shouldn’t we go back? looking over her shoulder at the road behind them, wondering what it is. Still grinning with that maniac grin, the guy laughs that he just ran over a raccoon. Back in 2004 while staying at a motel during our move to Virginia I saw an episode of Fear Factor, and before I realized it was going to happen, the host of the show took a container of live maggots, dumped them into a blender and put it on high. Then the contestants had to drink it. Animal cruelty, sexual degradation, violence, these are all the normal parts of television when you flip it on in 2007, and the younger generation who’ve been raised on it don’t know any better. They think this is normal. Things get worse, and worse, with every passing year. I was watching one of those VH-1 countdown shows and couldn’t believe the things that were coming out of some of the “talking puppets’” mouths who were giving their irrelevant two cents on the various people who had made it onto the list. As crazy as this sounds I actually questioned whether it was real. The things that the people were saying made me wonder uh, is this broadcast really real? Or is somebody playing with me? I remember what VH-1 used to be years ago, and it’s not even the same network anymore. Why they still call it VH-1, “Video Hits 1” as it originally was, is beyond me. Now it’s a “Hot List Countdown” network full of bizarre/gross commentary. 3. Tabloid and/or “news” shows that will do and say ANYTHING to get your attention and get you tuned in. A recent example being the OJ interview that had been in the works, called “If I Did It.” As soon as he announced he was going to write a hypothetical account, with accompanying interviews, the media was clammering all over it, desperately trying to hook viewers’/readers’ attentions with it. “LOOK HERE! LOOK HERE! HERE!HERE!HERE!!!!” Then when the public backlash kicked in, it was later revealed that the whole thing wasn’t real, and that OJ never planned to do that. So what’s really going on here? Do we even want to know? ! 4. Condescending. The way so many programs talk down to people, using simple vocabulary and sentence structure geared at about a fifth grade level, while keeping everything super short because they believe you wouldn’t be able to sustain attention for longer than one minute here, and one minute there. If you’re dumb you won’t notice it. If you’re smart you’ll have no tolerance for it! 5. CNN and any nightly news program. All gloom and doom and fear and terror, propaganda, lies and more lies, all the time. Recently a friend forwarded an interesting movie featured on Google called Militainment, which discusses the way in which television is controlled by the Pentagon, the huge propaganda machine with the war in Iraq, and the way the war is being portrayed on CNN and the nightly news like a fun and exciting movie from Hollywood. 6. Pointless chatter puff pieces. The other day I was sitting in the waiting area of a car repair shop, waiting for my car, and they had a TV set up and going for the customers. There was no way to turn it off either, apparently, because trust me I looked. ;) I was subjected to a whole hour of “Regis and Kelly” and then a whole hour of Kathy Lee Gifford and her side kick, and after two hours of hyper amped up chatter about absolutely nothing, and then all the commercials on top of it, let’s just say….I actually felt like I was going slightly bonkers. My head was swimming and I felt agitated. I don’t know how people watch this stuff every day. TV wants to keep your head busy with pointless chatter/internal dialogue so that you never have time to clear your head and be focused. Why? Because then you might actually have your own thoughts, and think of meaningful, important things. And the Powers That Be definitely don’t want THAT now, God forbid. Society is programmed to believe that it needs to listen to the inane banter of what other people have to say about everything, all the time. [link to in2worlds.net] Headline Dissection Dissecting the agendas behind the news headlines News headlines serve multiple purposes besides merely retelling events. (And some of this will be a recap from my “Introduction to the Movies” section): * Mass reality consensus. In the grand scheme of things, the media, of which involves the news, serves to reinforce to humanity a version of reality that they want us to believe and engage in. For skeptics and scoffers who have never experienced anything out of the ordinary, they have no reason to doubt the version of reality as portrayed to them by the world around them. So a claim about the news being a tool to shape mass reality consensus would probably seem laughable to them. So be it. But for anybody out there who has experienced things that showed them that there is a “curtain” to look behind, then this will make sense. * Manipulate public consensus/brainwashing/propaganda. (Closely relates to the first point but affects things in a more focused way.) Tell people something enough times and they’ll start to believe it. Promote and report particular details, while purposely leaving out other details, and you shape public agreement either for or against any subject you want. You can get a nation to go along with supporting a war/invasion, get the public to adore and support sociopathic politicians thinking they’re swell people, convince people of the need to rely on Big Pharma, vaccinations, etc. instead of natural health and healing, convince people who “the enemies” and “allies” are, convince people of their own helpless disempowerment, etc. etc. And with the right word usage and convincing, hypnotic delivery you can get people to disbelieve and doubt something that’s right in front of their face. It’s all in the way things are – or aren’t – reported, and constant reinforcement of certain ideas, people and images. Brainswashing 101. There are endless ways in which this is applied every day, in thousands of news stories around the world, going back to when the media was invented. * Social engineering. Program the people with “their” various agendas to shape the direction society is going. (Desensitization, sociopathy, feminism gone awry, pedophilia, apathy/feeling helpless, NWO/alien propaganda and disinfo., etc.) If the news and media – ie, authority – tells people that something is okay, or laughs something off, or portrays something in a fun, nonchalant light, and does it enough times, then eventually the majority will go along with the game plan. * Provide distraction and diversion. Keep people’s focus away from that which matters the most, so they are rendered ineffective to make changes in the world. Many news stories are nothing but fluffy puff pieces that fill up airtime or fill in the extra space in newspapers, and they do nothing to enlighten or inform. “There’s nothing to see here folks, move it along! Nothing to see!” [link to in2worlds.net] |