"Television Is The Most Dangerous Addictive Drug In Society":...

pafret Loc: Northeast

"Television Is The Most Dangerous Addictive Drug In Society"
by WakingTimes

"People have become so totally obsessed with their own beliefs, opinions and biases that their behavior is going completely unexamined. Their reactions to the latest news item are automatic and predictable. The late iconoclast Terence McKenna pointed out that obsessive and unexamined behavior in pursuit of familiar stimulus (such as what we see with each moment of media outrage) is what drug addiction is about.

McKenna went a step further to say that television was the greatest drug ever introduced into society. What else could persuade people to spend an average of 5-7 hours a day sitting in front of the TV? All the while consuming, in hypnotic states of mind, the scientifically crafted messages of corporate and government propagandists?

Here, McKenna expounds on the idea that television is a drug that is having negative consequences on individuals and on society at large: "Unexamined behavior is what is alarming about drug addiction, that people behave like they are obsessed. Well on that scale, then, the most powerful drug of the late 20th century is television and propaganda. And the way in which we consume propaganda is amazing. I mean the most intelligent of us, the ones who hold ourselves most aloof, are probably junkies through and through when it comes to the media."

He goes on to talk about how being able to see violence on tv has changed the nature of warfare, and that if we are to watch violence, we need to see real footage of it, rather than theatrical violence so that we can understand that we have a responsibility in creating a world in which war and violence is so prevalent.

Here he explains how similar watching television is to consuming a drug: "In fact it is shaping our value systems in ways that are very hard for us to suspect or even detect. I mean television, for example, it's a drug. It has a series of measurable physiological parameters that are as intrinsically its signature as are the parameters of heroin or its signature. You sit someone down in front of a TV set and turn it on. Twenty minutes later come back, sample their blood pressure, their eye movement rate, blood is pooling in their rear end, their breathing takes on a certain quality, the stare reflex sets in. They are thoroughly zoned on a drug."

"What do you think? Is television and mass media making people crazy?"
- https://www.wakingtimes.com/

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

Nope
TV's Opiate Day Has Passed

It's Computers, iphones, And Video Games

solarkin

pafret wrote:

"Television Is The Most Dangerous Addictive Drug In Society"
by WakingTimes

"People have become so totally obsessed with their own beliefs, opinions and biases that their behavior is going completely unexamined. Their reactions to the latest news item are automatic and predictable. The late iconoclast Terence McKenna pointed out that obsessive and unexamined behavior in pursuit of familiar stimulus (such as what we see with each moment of media outrage) is what drug addiction is about.

McKenna went a step further to say that television was the greatest drug ever introduced into society. What else could persuade people to spend an average of 5-7 hours a day sitting in front of the TV? All the while consuming, in hypnotic states of mind, the scientifically crafted messages of corporate and government propagandists?

Here, McKenna expounds on the idea that television is a drug that is having negative consequences on individuals and on society at large: "Unexamined behavior is what is alarming about drug addiction, that people behave like they are obsessed. Well on that scale, then, the most powerful drug of the late 20th century is television and propaganda. And the way in which we consume propaganda is amazing. I mean the most intelligent of us, the ones who hold ourselves most aloof, are probably junkies through and through when it comes to the media."

He goes on to talk about how being able to see violence on tv has changed the nature of warfare, and that if we are to watch violence, we need to see real footage of it, rather than theatrical violence so that we can understand that we have a responsibility in creating a world in which war and violence is so prevalent.

Here he explains how similar watching television is to consuming a drug: "In fact it is shaping our value systems in ways that are very hard for us to suspect or even detect. I mean television, for example, it's a drug. It has a series of measurable physiological parameters that are as intrinsically its signature as are the parameters of heroin or its signature. You sit someone down in front of a TV set and turn it on. Twenty minutes later come back, sample their blood pressure, their eye movement rate, blood is pooling in their rear end, their breathing takes on a certain quality, the stare reflex sets in. They are thoroughly zoned on a drug."

"What do you think? Is television and mass media making people crazy?"
- https://www.wakingtimes.com/

img https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7zvn_YNkC98/XEuGVl... (show quote)

Television ,and the internet are taking advantage of the fact that a certain percentage of the population is crazy. Of course , to a point ,defining "crazy"
Is a wide open field. I'm certain however ,that without television ,persons everywhere would spend time looking at each other, and their world.
We've come a long way from the Pony Express,and the telegraph .
I wonder if we are doing any better.

pafret Loc: Northeast

solarkin wrote:

Television ,and the internet are taking advantage of the fact that a certain percentage of the population is crazy. Of course , to a point ,defining "crazy"
Is a wide open field. I'm certain however ,that without television ,persons everywhere would spend time looking at each other, and their world.
We've come a long way from the Pony Express,and the telegraph .
I wonder if we are doing any better.

No need to wonder, we are not doing better.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

pafret wrote:

"Television Is The Most Dangerous Addictive Drug In Society"
by WakingTimes

"People have become so totally obsessed with their own beliefs, opinions and biases that their behavior is going completely unexamined. Their reactions to the latest news item are automatic and predictable. The late iconoclast Terence McKenna pointed out that obsessive and unexamined behavior in pursuit of familiar stimulus (such as what we see with each moment of media outrage) is what drug addiction is about.

McKenna went a step further to say that television was the greatest drug ever introduced into society. What else could persuade people to spend an average of 5-7 hours a day sitting in front of the TV? All the while consuming, in hypnotic states of mind, the scientifically crafted messages of corporate and government propagandists?

Here, McKenna expounds on the idea that television is a drug that is having negative consequences on individuals and on society at large: "Unexamined behavior is what is alarming about drug addiction, that people behave like they are obsessed. Well on that scale, then, the most powerful drug of the late 20th century is television and propaganda. And the way in which we consume propaganda is amazing. I mean the most intelligent of us, the ones who hold ourselves most aloof, are probably junkies through and through when it comes to the media."

He goes on to talk about how being able to see violence on tv has changed the nature of warfare, and that if we are to watch violence, we need to see real footage of it, rather than theatrical violence so that we can understand that we have a responsibility in creating a world in which war and violence is so prevalent.

Here he explains how similar watching television is to consuming a drug: "In fact it is shaping our value systems in ways that are very hard for us to suspect or even detect. I mean television, for example, it's a drug. It has a series of measurable physiological parameters that are as intrinsically its signature as are the parameters of heroin or its signature. You sit someone down in front of a TV set and turn it on. Twenty minutes later come back, sample their blood pressure, their eye movement rate, blood is pooling in their rear end, their breathing takes on a certain quality, the stare reflex sets in. They are thoroughly zoned on a drug."

"What do you think? Is television and mass media making people crazy?"
- https://www.wakingtimes.com/

img https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7zvn_YNkC98/XEuGVl... (show quote)

Absolutely it is! Add now all the other forms of "screen addiction." People are hypnotized by their media connections. Cell phones are glued to their visual fields.

solarkin

pafret wrote:

No need to wonder, we are not doing better.

So , if that is indeed the case , where is our species headed?
Have we peaked intellectually ,so to speak ,and now allow machines to think for us ?
Did the human genome reach it's varitel capacity ,and is being supported by technology ,? There has to be a small pocket ,or pool of sapiens ,that will carry on life as we know it. I'm sure none of this will come to pass tomorrow ,or in the next 50 years , but it feels like if this ship isn't steered to a new course ,we are destined to break up upon the rocks.

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

nwtk2007 wrote:

Absolutely it is! Add now all the other forms of "screen addiction." People are hypnotized by their media connections. Cell phones are glued to their visual fields.

Apparently one of the needs of humans is the necessity to 'view something' as opposed to causing things to happen.
In olden days, people watched the gladiators slaughter Christians, animals and each other, then comes movies,then TV with it's sports, quiz programs, not to mention singing, dancing, etc. Always something to watch and over time, changing the entire human race. Might as well evolve into one huge eyeball with only enough body to support it.
Personally caught onto the propaganda and brainwashing attributes years ago and as consequence will not watch TV beyond weather forecasts (with commercials muted).
Here at the assisted living community TV lounge, I have gleefully thought of putting EWTN on when it is time for Ellen and hide the remote, grins.

Wonttakeitanymore

Garbage in garbage out!!!

badbobby Loc: texas

pafret wrote:

"Television Is The Most Dangerous Addictive Drug In Society"
by WakingTimes

"People have become so totally obsessed with their own beliefs, opinions and biases that their behavior is going completely unexamined. Their reactions to the latest news item are automatic and predictable. The late iconoclast Terence McKenna pointed out that obsessive and unexamined behavior in pursuit of familiar stimulus (such as what we see with each moment of media outrage) is what drug addiction is about.

McKenna went a step further to say that television was the greatest drug ever introduced into society. What else could persuade people to spend an average of 5-7 hours a day sitting in front of the TV? All the while consuming, in hypnotic states of mind, the scientifically crafted messages of corporate and government propagandists?

Here, McKenna expounds on the idea that television is a drug that is having negative consequences on individuals and on society at large: "Unexamined behavior is what is alarming about drug addiction, that people behave like they are obsessed. Well on that scale, then, the most powerful drug of the late 20th century is television and propaganda. And the way in which we consume propaganda is amazing. I mean the most intelligent of us, the ones who hold ourselves most aloof, are probably junkies through and through when it comes to the media."

He goes on to talk about how being able to see violence on tv has changed the nature of warfare, and that if we are to watch violence, we need to see real footage of it, rather than theatrical violence so that we can understand that we have a responsibility in creating a world in which war and violence is so prevalent.

Here he explains how similar watching television is to consuming a drug: "In fact it is shaping our value systems in ways that are very hard for us to suspect or even detect. I mean television, for example, it's a drug. It has a series of measurable physiological parameters that are as intrinsically its signature as are the parameters of heroin or its signature. You sit someone down in front of a TV set and turn it on. Twenty minutes later come back, sample their blood pressure, their eye movement rate, blood is pooling in their rear end, their breathing takes on a certain quality, the stare reflex sets in. They are thoroughly zoned on a drug."

"What do you think? Is television and mass media making people crazy?"
- https://www.wakingtimes.com/

img https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7zvn_YNkC98/XEuGVl... (show quote)

paf
I spend much more time on my comp than on tv
that is of course when I ain't fishin
now fishin is definitely a drug
but a dam good one

pafret Loc: Northeast

badbobby wrote:

paf
I spend much more time on my comp than on tv
that is of course when I ain't fishin
now fishin is definitely a drug
but a dam good one

Sorry Bobby, fishin is a doin, you may like it lot but it's doin sumpin. Looking at the comp is basically chewin the fat and doin some shopping. There comes a time when your doins become somewhat limited. I don't roller skate anymore no matter how many cuties have new keys to try out.

badbobby Loc: texas

pafret wrote:

Sorry Bobby, fishin is a doin, you may like it lot but it's doin sumpin. Looking at the comp is basically chewin the fat and doin some shopping. There comes a time when your doins become somewhat limited. I don't roller skate anymore no matter how many cuties have new keys to try out.

you're not roller skatin any more???
Heck paf
I figgered you'd be doin spins and leaps an all kinda tricks
to impress them there cuties

pafret Loc: Northeast

badbobby wrote:

you're not roller skatin any more???
Heck paf
I figgered you'd be doin spins and leaps an all kinda tricks
to impress them there cuties

Found out a fat wallet attracts more cuties than gymnastics on wheels.

badbobby Loc: texas

pafret wrote:

Found out a fat wallet attracts more cuties than gymnastics on wheels.

well i wasn't much of a skater
and my wallet was usually flat guess I jus got lucky