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The author warns that people must guard against the creeping intrusion into their minds by technology, bureaucracy, prejudice, and mass delusion—in 1956.

Oops! Too late.

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I’m just appalled when older people (who haven’t been overly influenced by the smartphone culture, whether or not they own one) reveal that they leave their Boob Tubes on practically 24/7. They say they hardly ever “watch” it, though, and common excuses are “It makes the house feel less empty” and “I need the background noise to sleep at night.” And then they wonder why they are so anxious and high-strung, not realizing they’ve been subliminally brainwashed by the idiot box around the clock! Get a white noise generator, fer cryin’ out loud! Excuse my racism, lol

So glad to not have had one in my house at all in this century, and to *never* have had one in any of my bedrooms over the years!

[redcatcherb412]

Older people lololol

[Oratam]

The excellent 1962 movie The Manchurian Candidate, which has so much to say about the times we are in, includes what appears to be a throw away line of dialogue.

As Raymond Shaw's wife Jocelyn walks into the kitchen and immediately turns on the TV, Raymond says, "There are two kinds of people in this world: those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off."

We give our assent to the brainwashing...or we don't.

[miserare]

Sometimes, very lonely people keep the TV on just to hear another human voice in the house.

(as long as it’s not Tomi Lahren or Kennedy on FOX.)