Contestants on a French quiz show were willing to torture a man to death with high voltage electricity, live on television. They didn't know it was actually all part of an experiment, and their victim was an actor. The fake show called 'Game of Death', featured participants electrocuting contestants who answered incorrectly until they screamed in agony. Psychologists were exploring how far people are willing to push moral boundaries, in their pursuit of celebrity. 80 volunteers took part in what they thought was the pilot for a new TV programme, and just 16 of them refused to inflict pain. One of the show's directors denied he was exploiting contestants.
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3.18.2010
Shocking Show Suggests People Are Willing to Inflict Pain for Fame
2.26.2010
Unplug the Signal
· The Truth Will Not Be Televised.
http://pupaganda.com/originals/Unplug_the_signal.html
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The message is, "Be a good consumer; always obey authority; you know nothing; listen only to experts; be content and never question or express new ideas." This signal is being broadcast across millions of screens, indoctrinating the unconscious minds of those who choose this as their only reality. Self-censorship occurs when these individuals become so deeply indoctrinated that they are afraid to discuss any information outside the paradigm of television-created culture; they police their thoughts to ensure they won’t conflict with this culture.
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Virtually all forms of culture are created by the ruling class to build a false sense of reality, ensure social compliance, and control the future course of cultural evolution.
Predictive programming is a tool used by the establishment to acclimate the public to new ideas, trends, beliefs, and threats. It is used through television by including certain situations or ideas within the plots of many fictional shows, familiarizing the viewer with these concepts no matter what they may be watching. Just a few of these subjects include global warming, vaccinations, torture, terrorism, national security, the militarization of police, and the degradation of the family unit. Through predictive programming, television shapes culture and prevents individuals from asking questions.
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Whether it be the threat of a pandemic or terrorism, the constant state of crisis has created a form of mental illness as we are slowly acclimated into an age of crisis. By using Hegelian dialectic, the television promotes the problem, guides our reaction, and presents the solution. We have been trained to accept the life of a prisoner.
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From birth we take the world as it’s presented on television. We don’t question it and any serious criticism of TV is becoming psychologically impossible in society. Who would suspect getting born into a world where everything around you is a continuous lie?
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However, it is a continuous battle to educate the masses for the television remains our greatest threat to individual sovereignty and the largest obstacle to becoming a truly informed individual. Fortunately, unplugging from the signal is easy. The television can simply be turned off. Through doing so, you may realize nearly our entire world is now a hoax; things once known as truth are fake. We have been trained like dogs to be obedient to our television; our master has had our minds on a tight leash. Let us never forget the truth will not be televised.
Read more...
http://pupaganda.com/originals/Unplug_the_signal.html
by Nathan JanesToday, the television’s constant signal shapes the conclusions of the masses and produces the collective norm. Through television, the masses can be made to accept the most monstrous distortions of reality. The signal is a chill wind of continuous oppression over the minds of the masses. It controls the management of society and culture, creating uniformity across all subjects.
[...]
The message is, "Be a good consumer; always obey authority; you know nothing; listen only to experts; be content and never question or express new ideas." This signal is being broadcast across millions of screens, indoctrinating the unconscious minds of those who choose this as their only reality. Self-censorship occurs when these individuals become so deeply indoctrinated that they are afraid to discuss any information outside the paradigm of television-created culture; they police their thoughts to ensure they won’t conflict with this culture.
[...]
Virtually all forms of culture are created by the ruling class to build a false sense of reality, ensure social compliance, and control the future course of cultural evolution.
Predictive programming is a tool used by the establishment to acclimate the public to new ideas, trends, beliefs, and threats. It is used through television by including certain situations or ideas within the plots of many fictional shows, familiarizing the viewer with these concepts no matter what they may be watching. Just a few of these subjects include global warming, vaccinations, torture, terrorism, national security, the militarization of police, and the degradation of the family unit. Through predictive programming, television shapes culture and prevents individuals from asking questions.
[...]
Whether it be the threat of a pandemic or terrorism, the constant state of crisis has created a form of mental illness as we are slowly acclimated into an age of crisis. By using Hegelian dialectic, the television promotes the problem, guides our reaction, and presents the solution. We have been trained to accept the life of a prisoner.
[...]
From birth we take the world as it’s presented on television. We don’t question it and any serious criticism of TV is becoming psychologically impossible in society. Who would suspect getting born into a world where everything around you is a continuous lie?
[...]
However, it is a continuous battle to educate the masses for the television remains our greatest threat to individual sovereignty and the largest obstacle to becoming a truly informed individual. Fortunately, unplugging from the signal is easy. The television can simply be turned off. Through doing so, you may realize nearly our entire world is now a hoax; things once known as truth are fake. We have been trained like dogs to be obedient to our television; our master has had our minds on a tight leash. Let us never forget the truth will not be televised.
Read more...
1.26.2010
Network (Simpsons RMX)
· You Kent Always Say What You Want (S18EP22 - 05.20.2007)
The twenty-second episode of The Simpsons' eighteenth season, aired as part of the one hour season finale alongside the episode "24 Minutes". It's the 400th episode of the series.
This episode, formerly known as "The Kent State Massacre", was renamed in light of the Virginia Tech massacre, which occurred only a month before the episode was set to air.
The episode was intended to spoof increased fines by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the wake of the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. However, a month before the episode aired, Don Imus was fired for remarks he made on the air about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Similarly, Brockman wasn't immediately fired for his comments.
[Source: simpsons.wikia.com]This episode, formerly known as "The Kent State Massacre", was renamed in light of the Virginia Tech massacre, which occurred only a month before the episode was set to air.
The episode was intended to spoof increased fines by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the wake of the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. However, a month before the episode aired, Don Imus was fired for remarks he made on the air about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Similarly, Brockman wasn't immediately fired for his comments.
"There's no place for truth -nor bravery- in today's media"
- Lisa Simpson
"FOX deliberately runs shows that will 'earn' them huge fines, which are then funneled through the FCC straight to the Republican party. Everybody in the media knows it, but no-one has the guts to say it!"
- Kent Brockman
1.19.2010
"Las películas de Walt Disney deberían reservarse para adultos" - Santiago Alba Rico
http://www.elcorreoweb.es/cultura/081337/peliculas/walt/disney/deberian/reservarse/adultos
El escritor que integró el equipo de guionistas del programa ‘La Bola de Cristal’ medita acerca del sentido de la lectura y la necesidad de inculcarla a los niños desde la más temprana edad.
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-¿Existe la literatura para niños o jóvenes más allá de la literatura específica para ellos?
- Me temo que esos cortes -de edad, de género, de etnia- tienen que ver sobre todo con la explotación especializada de franjas de consumo. El resultado es la enorme hipocresía de una sociedad que se sentimentaliza en lugares separados, a determinadas horas, mientras apoya guerras o desprecia a los inmigrantes y entrega a sus niños, en una especie de sacrificio ritual, a las multinacionales capitalistas. Por lo demás, los criterios para establecer estas separaciones son errados. Si pensamos en el cine, creo que las películas de Walt Disney, como los libros de Sade, deberían estar reservadas para adultos bien preparados que pudiesen protegerse de sus hechizos corruptores. Lo que sí es claramente para adultos es el mundo; y no hay apenas adultos para gestionarlo o analizarlo.
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-¿Y qué significa entretener?
- Yo diría que, asociado a la llamada industria del entretenimiento, tiene el sentido muy claro de quedarse en el camino, a medio camino. Se nos entretiene, se nos mantiene con vida -como se habla de manutención de un cuerpo o un motor- en una especie de pasillo donde no pasa nada: donde las cosas y sus imágenes se limitan a pasar delante de nuestros ojos, sin que podamos atraparlas o compartirlas.
-Si la cultura es sólo entretenimiento, ¿para qué sirve?
-El peligro está en confundir cultura con mercancías culturales, las cuales -como todas las mercancías- son la negación misma de la cosa que nombran y parecen llevar dentro. De hecho, verdadera cultura, hoy en día, sólo se produce contra el mercado, incluso cuando, a veces, es asimilada o difundida por él. Como el mercado no es puritano acepta también las cosas buenas. Pero las cosas buenas nacen siempre en otra parte. Cultura es cualquier operación orientada a reproducir el medio propiamente humano de la humanidad y por eso es más cultural una madre que cose un botón que la llamada Alta Costura.
-¿Hacia dónde va la lectura?
-No hay que equivocarse: a la lectura nunca le ha ido demasiado bien. Leer es un trabajo y ya Cicerón se quejaba de lo poco que leían los romanos cultos. Ha sido sin embargo una posibilidad maravillosa -de democratización y racionalización de la humanidad- que no llegaremos a agotar. Mucho antes de que el mundo entero esté alfabetizado y mucho antes de que sea realmente "letrado", se nos exige incorporarnos a un nuevo paradigma, el digital, del que sólo sabemos que subvierte nuestra forma de abordar la realidad, y de abordarnos a nosotros mismos.
Leer más...
[...]
-¿Existe la literatura para niños o jóvenes más allá de la literatura específica para ellos?
- Me temo que esos cortes -de edad, de género, de etnia- tienen que ver sobre todo con la explotación especializada de franjas de consumo. El resultado es la enorme hipocresía de una sociedad que se sentimentaliza en lugares separados, a determinadas horas, mientras apoya guerras o desprecia a los inmigrantes y entrega a sus niños, en una especie de sacrificio ritual, a las multinacionales capitalistas. Por lo demás, los criterios para establecer estas separaciones son errados. Si pensamos en el cine, creo que las películas de Walt Disney, como los libros de Sade, deberían estar reservadas para adultos bien preparados que pudiesen protegerse de sus hechizos corruptores. Lo que sí es claramente para adultos es el mundo; y no hay apenas adultos para gestionarlo o analizarlo.
[...]
-¿Y qué significa entretener?
- Yo diría que, asociado a la llamada industria del entretenimiento, tiene el sentido muy claro de quedarse en el camino, a medio camino. Se nos entretiene, se nos mantiene con vida -como se habla de manutención de un cuerpo o un motor- en una especie de pasillo donde no pasa nada: donde las cosas y sus imágenes se limitan a pasar delante de nuestros ojos, sin que podamos atraparlas o compartirlas.
-Si la cultura es sólo entretenimiento, ¿para qué sirve?
-El peligro está en confundir cultura con mercancías culturales, las cuales -como todas las mercancías- son la negación misma de la cosa que nombran y parecen llevar dentro. De hecho, verdadera cultura, hoy en día, sólo se produce contra el mercado, incluso cuando, a veces, es asimilada o difundida por él. Como el mercado no es puritano acepta también las cosas buenas. Pero las cosas buenas nacen siempre en otra parte. Cultura es cualquier operación orientada a reproducir el medio propiamente humano de la humanidad y por eso es más cultural una madre que cose un botón que la llamada Alta Costura.
-¿Hacia dónde va la lectura?
-No hay que equivocarse: a la lectura nunca le ha ido demasiado bien. Leer es un trabajo y ya Cicerón se quejaba de lo poco que leían los romanos cultos. Ha sido sin embargo una posibilidad maravillosa -de democratización y racionalización de la humanidad- que no llegaremos a agotar. Mucho antes de que el mundo entero esté alfabetizado y mucho antes de que sea realmente "letrado", se nos exige incorporarnos a un nuevo paradigma, el digital, del que sólo sabemos que subvierte nuestra forma de abordar la realidad, y de abordarnos a nosotros mismos.
5.12.2009
La televisión propicia relaciones interpersonales ilusorias
·A pesar de consolar, a largo plazo mina las habilidades sociales.
http://www.tendencias21.net/La-television-propicia-relaciones-interpersonales-ilusorias_a3204.html
http://www.tendencias21.net/La-television-propicia-relaciones-interpersonales-ilusorias_a3204.html
Cuatro estudios realizados por dos universidades norteamericanas no dejan lugar a dudas: nuestros programas favoritos de televisión nos pueden consolar de la soledad o de tener baja autoestima. Sin embargo, este consuelo no debería llegar a sustituir nunca el esfuerzo por socializar ya que, según los expertos, darle la espalda a la familia o a los amigos por el consuelo de la televisión denota inadaptación y va minando los recursos sociales, a medida que pasa el tiempo. Esta conclusión concuerda con los resultados de otro estudio anterior basado en más de 30.000 personas, que no dejó lugar a dudas: los infelices ven más la televisión mientras que las personas felices son aquéllas socialmente más integradas.
Las relaciones ilusorias establecidas con los personajes o personalidades de los programas de televisión pueden proporcionar a las personas sentimientos de pertenencia o de integración social ilusorios, incluso en momentos de baja autoestima o tras haber sido rechazadas por amigos o familiares en la realidad.
Leer más...Las relaciones ilusorias establecidas con los personajes o personalidades de los programas de televisión pueden proporcionar a las personas sentimientos de pertenencia o de integración social ilusorios, incluso en momentos de baja autoestima o tras haber sido rechazadas por amigos o familiares en la realidad.
4.28.2009
Lonely? Bond with a TV character
http://www.theprovince.com/News/Lonely+Bond+with+character/1538441/story.html
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Good news for anyone who's ever spent a solitary night with the gang from Grey's Anatomy: it's not just you.[!!!]
A new study suggests favourite TV shows serve as proxies when real friends are in short supply, leaving people feeling less lonely in the company of their favourite programs.[...yeah, I know. Crazy, isn't it?]
"We need connections to other people almost as much as we need food and water," says author Jaye Derrick, a research associate at the State University of New York at Buffalo. "To me, it made sense that television could be an extension of that need, a way of temporarily fulfilling that need while we aren't able to seek connection to other people."
The idea for the [!]study[!] came when Derrick noticed that watching TV made her feel better after an argument with a boyfriend or friend.
Ha! For more laughs click here...A new study suggests favourite TV shows serve as proxies when real friends are in short supply, leaving people feeling less lonely in the company of their favourite programs.[...yeah, I know. Crazy, isn't it?]
"We need connections to other people almost as much as we need food and water," says author Jaye Derrick, a research associate at the State University of New York at Buffalo. "To me, it made sense that television could be an extension of that need, a way of temporarily fulfilling that need while we aren't able to seek connection to other people."
The idea for the [!]study[!] came when Derrick noticed that watching TV made her feel better after an argument with a boyfriend or friend.
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