Hippies young and Old... please leave me your thoughts and comments. We need more talk of a revolution if we ever want it to actually happen. Saying peace and love and wearing a flower is nice and all, but come on kids lets actually do something. No wonder there are not very many young hippies in the world if the spirits dead. ************ 98% of American families have at least one TV in there home. People in the country watch a lot of TV, and there are only about 2 corporations running the TV. People normally watch hours of TV a day, and that has to do something to your thought pattern. Especially because all of the political ideas expressed on the news channels are the same. The system actually has people so convinced that this system of government will protect them from terrorist attacks and anthrax that they just listen and respect it. I grew up watching the stock everyday when I was young, and if it wasn’t for a band named anti-flag I wouldn’t be writing this. Anyways, these people in silly suits rant at you about things that really aren’t important and you know it. All I’ve seen president bush do is say “we will do better! Stop terrorists! I love freedom!” if you think about it, that’s all his message is, and somehow people still trust this man. A leader is supposed to be someone we can look up to, not nearly half the population who hate him. What these people that live rich lives fail to realize is that if every stoner, punk, burn out, bum, fade away, old hippy, and every alternative person would have voted this would be a much safer world right now. Anyways, because of this one party view point on the TV, the TV has turned more into the Telescreen in the book 1984 than most people would think. In the book the telescreens message is simple, “WAR IS PEACE – FREEDOM IS SLAVERY – IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” Now look at our society. Not what you see on the TV? Of course not, they wouldn’t be that stupid, they would not spell out things like these to you, they bring about bad vibes, they would rather tell you to be nice and calm. They tell us we’re in Iraq for a good reason. Almost half of the people I see will tell me the war is wrong. Where is the anti-war side of this whole thing? It doesn’t exist on the TV. They do tell us that War is peace, and we believe it. The TV also send a message that the job that you are stuck doing all day is fun and exciting. In the book 1984 people just do jobs that they are assigned to, the character in the book doesn’t talk to people much, he just types things. He sometimes looks at the other people that are working, and has thoughts about them, but hardly ever says anything. Remind of you a large corporation? There is also a segment of the book called “the two minutes of hate” where it shows a man screaming on the television but his words aren’t there. The people get all alarmed and throw swear but look deeper. The man is a radical, who tries to get his thoughts about the society on the air, but he can’t because he’s just there during the two minutes of hate, where the people who watch get angry and begin to yell. But if you look to differing viewpoints on American news, you’ll find there aren’t any. Millions of people showed up to march against this war for profit, yet the media did not show any of the speech, or any part of the message were trying to scream to the world. Then you look at the conservative reaction, a lot of people say that protesters actually make them angry, so basically the TV has silenced the radical viewpoints, and it makes people mad who watch it, just like in the book. These people can’t get themselves on the air, so they actually go out into the streets to shout there opinion out to the world. Millions of them take a day out of there busy lives to go say that something isn’t right here. I wish the rest of you could just grasp the concept that maybe they have a point. If you think I would ever go to kill people I don’t know for some old guys profit, you can think again. Just read this and think a little… that’s all I ask. Just think… maybe there’s something more to things than what I’m told. I hope people will sit down their Venti Caramel Mochas from Starbucks, take off their khakki’s, unplug the TV, and think a little. Peace -Ben Thompson
damn dude, whyd you have to write so much? *gets to reading* ill reply again...in about an hour it seems.
I grew up in a home with no television. I can't be sure about cause and effect, but I know that my parents see things much differently than the mainstream. So do I. My sister is such an activist that she has changed careers to enroll in law school. She is eventually going to be a policy maker in Washington. I must confess that during hockey season I buy cable just to get espn, but when the season is over, I cancel it immediately. I have no signal in my house at all right now, and it's wonderful. The tv is used only to watch movies and play video games, neither of which I do that much. Yes, there are frightening comparisons to Orwell in modern society. But the difference is that we do still have a choice. Democracy is crumbling under our feet, though, and we won't have that choice for long. John Ashcroft really is big brother. Kill your television!!!
you have a very good point and you present it very well. i really hope people are taking what you say in, for the sake of everyone's lives
“WAR IS PEACE – FREEDOM IS SLAVERY – IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” You're right. They've already told us that this war is for peace. They've taken away our rights to "protect" our freedom, and most of the nation is extremely ignorant about these things (and they wouldn't have it any other way).
i don't know. is it supposed to be NYC? i got it off a german site, really didn't know what the rest of the site said.
he'll take a totalitarian, dictator ship like approach on neigboring countries, then starts Crusades from the military bases in Iraq. scary thoughts.....
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Can you imagine!? "Bring it on! YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAA!" *shudders, runs to the bathroom to puke up a lung*
