21-06-2013, 09:46 AM
Albert Rossi Wrote:David
Of course you would not remember it from the film. The film is entirely different from the book. It almost doesn't even seem to be Sagan, though I know he was supposedly consulted.
David/Phil
My intention with the word "solution" was mostly facetious. I know it's not really a solution. And I did not mean to imply that my "solution" allows me to be cleansed of all the other programming I have been subjected to, once and for all. Nor does it signal a retreat from the world. But why need I listen over and over again to the same MSM lies? I seek other sources where I can. Further, it is my feeling that the mind-numbing garbage on TV is not only in the commercials. But I can't say I've followed what's on the air for a long time. I could see the argument, on the other hand, that only by actively paying attention and combatting the media are we going to reach most people. I would like to believe that ...
I can pinpoint in my memory (though the exact date escapes me) the moment when I decided to turn off the tube altogether. It was during the News Hour, when the usual roll call of pundits like Gurgin (sp?) were mouthing off about W's Afghanistan invasion. The then editor of Newsweek, Meacham (sp?), then started to bloviate about how Bush's foreign policy was like JFK's. That's it, I said.
Al,
I quite understand why you have avoid television; we're more or less on the same page here.
My thinking is that if one could develop a TV that automatically switched when adverts were about to be aired (simple enough technologically as Phil demonstrates - it could be a small plug-in box I imagine, cheap too), this would be a quite significant step towards forcing change upon our entire media structure.
For example, if such technology became available, my guess is that a very large number of people would avail themselves of it. Advertising is highly disruptive and annoying. In the best outcome of this scenario, TV stations would begin folding almost overnight, other than public service ones.
But the reality would be that the government would outlaw, or technologically restrict, such a device. Game over.
Maybe.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14