Mass Media: Smoke & Mirrors

By Tim O’Shea

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We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated. Who cares, right?

 

It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public consciousness by a thousand media clips per day.

 

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The final goal of media is to create a following of docile, unquestioning consumers. To that end, three primary tools have historically been employed:

 

 

deceit

 

dissimulation

 

distraction

 

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So while the power group has its cozy little war going on, the people need to have their attention diverted.

 

All the strong men of history would have given their eyeteeth to have at their disposal the number and types of distractions available to today’s regimes:

 

- TV sports, its orchestrated frenzy and spectacle

 

- Super Sunday

 

- an endless succession of unspeakably boring, inane movies, short on plot, long on CGI

 

- the wanton sexless flash of MTV with its uninspired lack of talent, a study in split second phony images

 

- colossally dull TV programs which serve the secondary purpose of instilling proper robot attitudes into people who have little other instruction in life values

 

- the artistic Mojave of modern music, with its soulless cyber-droning, a constant quest for the nadir of reptilian brain stimulation, devoid of lyrical competence, instrumental proficiency, or passion

 

- the ever-retreating promise of financial success, switched now to the trappings and toys that suggest success, available to anyone with a credit card

 

- organized superstitions of all varieties, with their requisite pseudo-spiritual trappings

 

- the constant dramatization of crimes and “issues” throughout the world whose collective goal is the humble and grateful acknowledgement of “how good we’ve really got it”

 

- dwelling for months on the minutiae of unsupported allegations of impropriety, preferably sexual, of a celebrity personality

 

With these noisy, banal distractions the forces promoting the general decline in intelligence and awareness jubilantly engulf us on all sides. Media science holds the advantage: as people get dumber and dumber year by year it gets easier and easier to keep them dumb. The only challenge is that their threshold keeps getting lower. So in order to keep their attention, messages have to become more obvious and blatant, taking nothing for granted. >>much more to read HERE

 

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