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Um, does anyone remember there's a war going on?
An observation from someone who started watching TV regularly a few months ago ...
Something somewhat disturbing happened when I moved from San Francisco to Ft. Wayne ... I started watching television. No big surprise, there ... I moved into a motel and all motels (except the seedy SRO's for the homeless in San Francisco) come standard with TV and cable. Even though an apartment would be cheaper, I never bothered to find one because frankly my references suck and renting by the month suits me -- it discourages hoarding, comes with no-fuss furniture and utilities, and I can leave whenever I want to. Unfortunately, it encourages an insidiously bad habit -- watching TV.
My entire adult life has passed without ever having cable, except when I lived in motels. I wouldn't own a TV, either, if it meant I had to buy one. But when you live in a motel, it's right there, front and center, remote control and everything ... and so while I con myself into thinking I have nothing better to do, I flip through the channels and the next thing you know I'm addicted to American Idol, Ghost Hunters and Moonlight marathons. Watching TV re-arranges your frame of what's important and what isn't, and it's pretty obvious in the United States, the "wars" we're supposed to be engaged in are on the very back burners of pop consciousness.
I mean, if you could take someone from 1943 or even 1967 to visit us here in 2010, and then informed them "you know, we're actually involved in two different wars ..." what do you suppose they'd think?? Because, you know, we sure don't act like we're "at war." Yes, we are making sacrifices, but they seem to all be sacrifices of personal liberty, economic oversight, sovereignty ... and they are being exacted so expertly that no one seems to notice too much. It's not like we're being asked to follow rations. We just can't afford to buy the things we need.
No one seems to give a rip about the soldiers overseas, or the people whose land they're occupying. Not on TV, anyway. I hardly ever hear anyone talk about the fact that we're supposed to be at war. Doesn't this seem strange to you? It does to me.
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My entire adult life has passed without ever having cable, except when I lived in motels. I wouldn't own a TV, either, if it meant I had to buy one. But when you live in a motel, it's right there, front and center, remote control and everything ... and so while I con myself into thinking I have nothing better to do, I flip through the channels and the next thing you know I'm addicted to American Idol, Ghost Hunters and Moonlight marathons. Watching TV re-arranges your frame of what's important and what isn't, and it's pretty obvious in the United States, the "wars" we're supposed to be engaged in are on the very back burners of pop consciousness.
I mean, if you could take someone from 1943 or even 1967 to visit us here in 2010, and then informed them "you know, we're actually involved in two different wars ..." what do you suppose they'd think?? Because, you know, we sure don't act like we're "at war." Yes, we are making sacrifices, but they seem to all be sacrifices of personal liberty, economic oversight, sovereignty ... and they are being exacted so expertly that no one seems to notice too much. It's not like we're being asked to follow rations. We just can't afford to buy the things we need.
No one seems to give a rip about the soldiers overseas, or the people whose land they're occupying. Not on TV, anyway. I hardly ever hear anyone talk about the fact that we're supposed to be at war. Doesn't this seem strange to you? It does to me.
-------------------
Related articles and video:
The Picture
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24891.htm
Was Montel Williams Kicked Off the Air for Criticizing Fox News? [VIDEO]
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/75800
A Nation Rocked To Sleep Carly Sheehan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsEwAFF1zrk
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http://jpaulson.blogspot.com
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The dilemma of Imperialist aggressive war being waged illegally has two faces, one to the peoples and one to the military aggressors. This is done because waging an unjust war, is not popular with the people, so censorship obtains throughout the length of the illegal war. The other is that super propaganda and lies must be portrayed to the potential cannon-fodder and that is on-going throughout the cable world, and the satelite world of over a thousand stations, but in those thousand stations you will not find one peace channel or program to show how to organize to stop war, or to donate to stop war, or in anyway interfere with the illegally lied about phenomena of aggtrssive war.
Sure the programs have some variety but not on the question of peace and how to organize it. Sure there are some sit-calms, but again that leads to pacification and pacification is not lilberation. Liberation only thoroughly happens when the war machine and its manufactury is dismantled, and thus begins the possiblity of genuine democracy, freedom and peace. In the meantime you are given the illusion that all is quiet on the Western Front, while the Pentagon steals hundreds of billions of dollars from the hard working taxpayers to give you more years of quagmire and psy-war pretence of reality. None of which leads to disarmament and the birth of a genuine era of Peace on Earth and goodwill to all peoples.
Sure the programs have some variety but not on the question of peace and how to organize it. Sure there are some sit-calms, but again that leads to pacification and pacification is not lilberation. Liberation only thoroughly happens when the war machine and its manufactury is dismantled, and thus begins the possiblity of genuine democracy, freedom and peace. In the meantime you are given the illusion that all is quiet on the Western Front, while the Pentagon steals hundreds of billions of dollars from the hard working taxpayers to give you more years of quagmire and psy-war pretence of reality. None of which leads to disarmament and the birth of a genuine era of Peace on Earth and goodwill to all peoples.
okay to see tv so you can see how they promote deadly dangerous pharmaceuticals, just like it was candy or m and m's. orwellian but no one is saying anything!
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