If you watch TV YOU are the problem because:

If you don't like the messages repeated ad nauseum on TV, learn about television and child psychology, write your own children's programs that reflect your values, and get them on TV. Use TV as a tool to spread heartfelt, personal words of wisdom instead of capitalistic propaganda.

I have a feeling you'll have better luck doing this than convincing people to stop watching TV.

PS. I don't think babies are born to do anything they aren't taught to. Humans do not do good on their own. Look at the oppressive customs of tribal cultures where women are tortured or killed for adultry. These customs have nothing to do with capitalism or television. Completely isolated from western society, yet no less barbaric or ignorant.

A baby is an empty mind ready to be filled. We choose what to fill it with.

Existence precedes essence. We become what we want to, or what others program us to become (if we choose not to think for ourselves) but at birth we are nothing but free will and untapped potential that can go in any direction.

 

It's kinda like telling people to stop reading just because some books say bad things.

Also

I wish Eastenders was that well-scripted.

 

Infants know nothing of Love or Sharing so how are they born to Love and Share? Children only learn what is taught to them, when they are born they are blank slates. We hold the chaulk and we write on these chaulk boards.

With this I have said enough.

I do agree with what you said about the TV, it programs people. I do not however agree with your deffention of Human Nature. If our nature is Mother Nature then why are we cutting down trees, ultering the landscape harming your Mother Nature? Humans in mine eyes simply hold the nature of attempting to survive and to breed. We have found ways to ulter our surroundings in order to survive in greater numbers and in order to breed more quickly.

 

i agree with you ''Benther Dondat'' T.v is a very bad influence , t.v is just a wast of time and the propaganda in it trying to eat the brain of our next generation

 

Survival?
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The salvation of civilization rests in the hands of our youth and the most irresponsible people on the planet today are their parents...parents that never seriously lift a hand to help resolve overpopulation or the suffering of the children that are already here...parents that figure the best way to save the planet is to produce more kids that will join the rest of us to consume what is left of this wondrous planet...parents that spend their life punching the time clock, paying the mortgage, putting food on the table and teaching their kids to compete with the Jones...and worst of all parents that send their kids to schools without gardens!

 

That is one of the most disgusting diatribes against the common man I've seen on here. You're basically opposed to anyone who doesn't have a high disposable income and/or propagates.

Just don't speak, okay? It is not your place.

 

Brother SelfControl,

What does money have to do with it?

Hmm! Conform, Compete, Consume, Breed?

I didn't ask your permission nor would I waste my time.

Our earth and our children deserve a world in which anyone can speak freely and honestly.

Think peace and love!

 

You seem to regard parents as bad for doing a job, feeding their kids, etc. You seem angry at them for being prisoners of a system you oppose, more than the system itself. And that's just shitty.

 

The only difference in anything is in your minds "I"...don't you think?

 

my favorite part of this whole equation is that I and many others thrive in the world while you whine and fail...typical

I know I make more money than you, and you know I am loving it

 

Hello Sister Seamonster66

I see that you are wasting your time again with us lowly surfs!

No doubt money and ego top your list. I am no match. My interest is the kids and nature which apparently doesn’t even register on your radar. Money?...yes I do know that you love money.... it obviously fasinates and intoxicates you.


Anything else?


Don’t waste you time on this lowly piece of dung. You obviously deserve more.


Sorry!

 

The Involuntary Human Extinction Movement has issued their latest report. Huge increases in world population coupled (sic) with associated ecological degradation are on track to leave our kids and grandkids a planet as sick as our values.

Of special interest to the movement was the Amerikan peoples continued head-in-the-sand commitment to change!

Stay tuned to your local programing to follow this (heart) breaking news!

 

If I pretend to agree with whatever that's even supposed to mean, will you go away? I'm thinking you're saying that we are each the architects of our own reality through our perception of it. And that's total hokum.

 

Can we see this report that you've come by?

And out of curiosity, why do you think you've included the word "(sic)" after a piece of text that - unusually for you - does not contain an error?

 

take it easy dude!
come on! peace!

 

Benther Dondat , you'r right about televison,i mean there are so many other useful things to do insted of watching that stupid screen all day long!
it's a slavery man!
you can watch some t.v, but you have to be careful, "televesion is a brain-washing mashine"
peace!

 

Conform…compete…consume…breed…
conform…compete…consume…breed…
conform…compete…consume…breed…
conform…compete…consume…breed…

conform!
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The circle is unbroken!

 

Read "four arguments for the elimination of television"

The dudes onto something, and the book says why


BUT i really dont like how their posts seem preachy, kind of religious in their persuasion tactics (like the repetition) Just come out and say it honestly, man, and give plain reasons why television does these things, rather than hyping it up and using language people either dont understand fully or may be scared by. Show your human side, will you!? It seems hypocritical youre talking about television hypnosis when your posts appear to be attmepting to achieve the same effect. Or are you just a troll here?

I still watch tv, but very, very rarely, and only when my fiancé really wants to. About a couple of times a week for an hour or so. But youre right, in a way

 

I am lazy so I did not read this whole thread except the first few pages. TV is cultural. Every day we are out learning culture and TV shows us how to act, talk, and to be. Sure it can be bad because it can be used as a tool and IT IS PEOPLES PERCEPTIONS BEING TOLD TO US. The more you stay away from it the better IMO. TV is passive anyways. Main stream media is the worse tool filtering, censoring, and giving perspectives. very dangerous.

 

i don't know man i'm like a t.v. junky and i still want peace and what not, and when u were little i bet u watched t.v. and ur not a conformist