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I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE, (WELL MAYBE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE).

   How many people remember the movie “Network”? The above title, (well most of it anyway), comes from the movie. The main character, a newscaster I believe, finally snaps over the absurdity of the world and the role that television played, (and continues to play), in shaping it. He coins the phrase “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”, a phrase which soon catches on like wildfire. His main message was to turn off the TV and start living in the real world. His crusade becomes so popular that the TV builds a show around him which becomes absurdly popular, thereby defeating his own purpose. When his message finally sinks in and people start to turn off their sets, they assassinate him, live on TV and achieve an all time high in ratings. Even though you just had a short synopsis of the movie it is definitely worth watching.

   His message was to turn off the TV, (reality shows), and join reality, (the real live, make it up as you go, reality). Too much of our time is wasted in front of the tube. We rely on it for too much of our information, thinking that the news stations have no agenda of their own
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   They have the same agenda that any other business has, to take money from your pocket and place it in theirs. You buy product, the advertiser pays the station to air the ads, from your pocket to theirs just like that. This is the reason that ours news tends to lean toward the sensational, useless information, that we have no real need to know, information that is usually bad news, which seems to peak our interests more than good news. Maybe we need to feel that someone, somewhere, is having a worse day than us.
The use of television, (and indeed all forms of media), is to manipulate consumers into consuming more, and thereby generating cash flow, the scary part is when they use the media to influence your opinions by slanting the news. This is most noticeable when the programming is of a political nature. The TV stations tend to slant things a certain way depending on the political preferences of the respective owners, unfortunately in our modern day world there are few owners, (most broadcasting is controlled by a small handful of the “rich and powerful”), and therefore the viewpoints expressed tend to be narrow, and basically lean toward politics that favor the interests of the owner.
  This is very noticeable when they keep you informed on the latest polls/surveys; the surveys are done in demographic areas that favor the results they want, and the polls tend to sway people by telling you who’s winning, (with a ±3, 4, 5% error factor), and since no one wants to be on the losing side we tend to jump ship as the polls shift up or down. This, of course, also depends on who, conducts the polls, where they conduct them, and how they interpret the results.
   Newspapers run along the same lines, advertisers pay for the cost of printing, the sensational news makes the A page, corrections to misprints, acquittals and such get a slot on D page. Magazines are just one big advertisement, especially the specialty mags that cater to out vanities. Basically every form of media is there to sell something, or manipulate your opinion on something, when you get that through your head the ads, (even the subliminal ads), have less affect on our decision making process.
The use of subliminal techniques, (visual, audio, tactile, and olfactory), has been around a long time, but with current research, the techniques are being perfected. By perfected I mean they are harder to detect and extremely effective and you are being assaulted daily with hundreds of subliminal attempts to sway your thinking. A short list of links on the subject can be found at http://www.poleshift.org/sublim/ or just type subliminal in any search engine. I should also point out that subliminal advertising is not illegal as most people would like to believe.


(later)”wtanbo”

16

I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE, (WELL MAYBE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE.)

   How many people remember the movie “Network”? The above title, (well most of it anyway), comes from the movie. The main character, a newscaster I believe, finally snaps over the absurdity of the world and the role that television played, (and continues to play), in shaping it. He coins the phrase “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”, a phrase which soon catches on like wildfire. His main message was to turn off the TV and start living in the real world. His crusade becomes so popular that the TV builds a show around him which becomes absurdly popular, thereby defeating his own purpose. When his message finally sinks in and people start to turn off their sets, they assassinate him, live on TV and achieve an all time high in ratings. Even though you just had a short synopsis of the movie it is definitely worth watching.
   His message was to turn off the TV, (reality shows), and join reality, (the real live, make it up as you go, reality). Too much of our time is wasted in front of the tube. We rely on it for too much of our information, thinking that the news stations have no agenda of their own.
   
   They have the same agenda that any other business has, to take money from your pocket and place it in theirs. You buy product, the advertiser pays the station to air the ads, from your pocket to theirs just like that. This is the reason that ours news tends to lean toward the sensational, useless information, that we have no real need to know, information that is usually bad news, which seems to peak our interests more than good news. Maybe we need to feel that someone, somewhere, is having a worse day than us.
The use of television, (and indeed all forms of media), is to manipulate consumers into consuming more, and thereby generating cash flow, the scary part is when they use the media to influence your opinions by slanting the news. This is most noticeable when the programming is of a political nature. The TV stations tend to slant things a certain way, depending on the political preferences of the respective owners, unfortunately in our modern day world there are few owners (most broadcasting is controlled by a small handful of the “rich and powerful”), and therefore the viewpoints expressed tend to be narrow, and basically lean toward politics that favor the interests of the owner.
   This is very noticeable when they keep you informed on the latest polls/surveys; the surveys are done in demographic areas that favor the results they want, and the polls tend to sway people by telling you who’s winning, (with a ±3, 4, 5, 6% error factor), and since no one wants to be on the losing side we tend to jump ship as the polls shift up or down. This, of course, also depends on who, conducts the polls, where they conduct them, and how they interpret the results.
   
   Newspapers run along the same lines, advertisers pay for the cost of printing, the sensational news makes the A page, corrections to misprints, acquittals and such get a slot on D page. Magazines are just one big advertisement, especially the specialty mags that cater to out vanities. Basically every form of media is there to sell something, or manipulate your opinion on something, when you get that through your head the ads, (even the subliminal ads), have less affect on our decision making process.
The use of subliminal techniques, (visual, audio, tactile, and olfactory), has been around a long time, but with current research, the techniques are being perfected. By perfected I mean they are harder to detect and extremely effective and you are being assaulted daily with hundreds of subliminal attempts to sway your thinking. A short list of links on the subject can be found at http://www.poleshift.org/sublim/ or just type subliminal in any search engine. I should also point out that subliminal advertising is not illegal as most people would like to believe.


(later)”wtanbo”

1111

Hi Def Fever? Or, When Digitall get so crazy?

   Everybody knows someone who has the ridiculously expensive “Entertainment System”. I’m not talking about the average ES, I’m talking “Sunfire”, or “Levinson”, expensive. Gadgets that start at 3-4 digits and go to 4-5-6 digits. Car stereos that cost more than the average car, so loud they can “stress small buildings with a single note”. You know the ones I’m talking about, 1000 yards away and “your” ears hurt, the ones that make you purchase stock in the hearing aid companies to insure your retirement down the road.

   Somehow loud and concussive became synonymous with good and clean, musical compositions became synonymous with loud craprap.

   The 102" Hi-Def surround sound ES is still just a TV after all, and will never be Real Life, no matter how many “Reality Shows” they broadcast. With Hi-Def you can see the actors sweat under the lights, and the blemishes right through the pancake makeup. I personally believe TV should remain “chewing gum for the mind”, and leave the reality to real life, outside the house, in the real world experience.

   Even here you are constantly assaulted with the digital world, (like it or not), DVD players in cars, mp3 players plugged into you ears, phones stuck to the side of your head, satellite radio, digital LED billboard signs, digital billboards on the sides of trucks, constant reminders of our never ending attempt to escape the hum drum reality of our existence in the modern world.

   In the long run it would probably be cheaper to fix the real world than to hide in the digital one, but that would put Madison Ave, and a lot of gadget manufacturers out of business, and you wouldn’t have that new toy to show off. (Hey guys, check out my new phone/tv/mp3/computer/vibrator/bidet/thingy). Reality sucks, because we no longer try to fix the problems of society, we prefer to chase after more expensive chewing gum so we won’t have to notice how bad it sucks.

   Crime is up, (even with the constant influx of new police officers), poverty is up, (even with the increase in new jobs), depression is on the rise, ADHD is increasing, autism is on the rise, (even with the new wonder drugs), illiteracy is high, (even with our “modern educational system”), overweight undernourished people abound, (even with the current health craze).
                                                                                 

   Everything seems to be deteriorating on a logarithmic scale as we keep increasing our population and expanding our reach further and further across the planet and eventually into space. As long as we have our toys we pretend not to notice, and as long as somebody’s making lots of money, we’ll continue to have “new and improved toys” to occupy our minds.

   The digital age is here to stay, with all its new toys that we really don’t need, but must have, to be at least marginally cool. The digital age is here to stay; (The reigning technology, until the next “alien space crash” brings us into “The Efitall Age”). There are some who actually believe digital technology came from reverse engineering a crashed alien space craft. (Roswell)

   The only problem with digital is the ease by which it can be manipulated, any ten year old with a computer can manipulate digital imagery. Information can be modified to fit whatever facts or non-facts someone wants it to fit, news is usually slanted to fit the opinions of the particular news bringer, digital broadcasting will make this much easier, and all the accompanying imagery can be modified to support the opinions they purvey.

   The right to privacy will slowly vanish as more and more digital gadgetry falls into the hands of the consumer. The use of digital wireless communication invites eavesdropping, as any broadcast signal can be intercepted by anyone with the means and desire, and warrants are not really a requirement since the signals are floating around in the ether-world for anyone to grab. As technology advances, so also does the world shrink, and the individual’s privacy shrinks proportionately.

 (Getting Bored? Well maybe one more.)

14

3.14159265358979323846…

PI In The Sky or, In Your Face.

   Ah!!! The American Dream, as wholesome as mom’s apple pie, two cars in every garage, a chicken in every pot, 2.3 kids, a yard, a dog etc, etc. The land of opportunity, with streets paved in gold, every dream within reach, high hopes, there goes another rubber tree, etc, etc. Once upon a time this was not so far fetched, the country was growing at a phenomenal rate, opportunities abounded, the mixture of nationalities, their cultures, their desire to be part of a truly grand experiment in democracy, must have been a wondrous time in this nation’s history.

   Unfortunately in the beginning we came to America bringing the white man’s curse, (greed), and nearly wiped out the indigenous population in the process, either through disease or small arms fire. We came, we saw, we took, and we kept coming, and kept taking. The same curse still affects us today, somehow in all our years of evolution we never quite mastered the art of living with nature, and when we happen upon anyone who does it’s either conversion or extinction.

   Immigrants still keep pouring into America looking for that elusive dream, the grass is always greener…..Each succeeding group of immigrants had to pay their dues by being the whipping boy for the preceding group of immigrants, who in their turn had already paid at the gate, (Ellis Island in latter years). As the population increased each ethnic group banded together in communities, either through common customs or beliefs, or the need for self preservation. We soon became a nation of little nations, each maintaining its ethnic origins, every major city had it little nation states, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Chinese, what have you, and each defended its territory, against the “outsiders”.

   Immigrants come to America, and instead of “melting” into the great pot, they now demand that the nation caters to their individual ethnicities. One nation divided by its own citizens, each nationality looking down upon the others, citing outdated stereotypical diatribes, that serve no purpose but to sustain the divisions.

   In our current political climate the immigration issue is at the forefront of the problems affecting America, and its citizens. The main objective seems to be supplying industry with an affordable labor force, (read that as cheap), this is more apparent now that the “baby boomers” are retiring, and “Genx” is moving in. GenX, (for those suffering cave denial syndrome CDS), is a lot smaller in numbers than the boomer era, hence the need to open the immigration floodgate, it removes power from genx, forces wages low, bringing America on a more even keel with third world economics, and from the perspective of a little known agenda it sets the stage for the unification of North America into a unified continental state. (Hey I’m not making this stuff up it’s out there: Look for Yourself, LYF). It will be similar to the European Economic Union, it will also happen in Asia and South America eventually, and then they will all unite to form a Happy One World Govt. (LFY)

   We are not African-American, Polish-American, Italian-American, Irish-America, etc…We are Americans, this is the country we live in, We speak English here, (have the decency to learn the language of the country you “chose” to live in), if you chose to live here and still consider yourself to be an ?-American, maybe you should go back “Home” where you might be more comfortable with the customs. Sure we have problems in American, when people are divided there will be problems, Hell; wherever people live there will be problems!

   When we work together as Americans we can FIX any problem, we need to stop the politically correct, at all cost, attitude, we need to stop bending over backwards trying to adapt to the customs and beliefs of each ?-American. When in Rome, or more accurately When in America do as the Americans Do! Here’s a new slogan for you:

America
Love it Enough To Fix It ™

By the way "CDS" has no symptom so see your doctor for immediate treatment!

(More to come , maybe , someday…..)