The case against television is not a hard one to make. To quote Niel Postman we are a generation that is "amusing ourselves to death".
This 24-hour, multi-billion dollar industry has cracked the psyche of the consumer and effectively controls the public discourse on a multi faceted level. It standardizes people.
What is television? Noise.
Just static noise without a purpose; spliced between five minute intervals of commercials.
It is business interests maintaining control of the market.
Disney, GE, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom- these five media conglomerates own exclusively all of television.
Welcome to the great drug of our generation- a television to every home, room, and person.
Ever stop to wonder why you have no idea what is happening in the world right now?
Kill the goddamn thing.
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