How television affects your brain

I watch TV entirely off of my DVR...
I schedule that which I want to watch...
Prime time network shows are pretty much a waste...
I watch my prerecorded selected shows when I want to and skip over the commercials...
The Daily Show rules...#1
And some of the shows on Adult Swim on the Cartoon network are absolutely cutting edge...
Science, Discovery, History, DIY and such have some good programing on them too...
I do not intend to go back to watching "real" time TV...

I quit watching in'97 . Artist will always try to create good shows, and bless 'em for it . It is just that those corporate interests use them to manipulate people . I have no prob with adults watching . They know what is up . Children have no defense against subtle manipulations like this . Public tv used to be not so bad as far as blatant psychological reprogramming . As long as they rely on adverts for funding I am not hopeful about positives outweighing negatives . It is outrageous that they charge you to sell you stuff too ....

I think that is why i now dislike TV.

It's not about what you watch, although content can be psychologically detrimental as well, but rather, it is the technology employed behind the screen that affects you, the frequencies emitted that draw your mind into receptive modes, so as to render you susceptible to subliminal conditioning.....

It depends on what you watch. If you watch shows like Lost, that require you to discuss and decode it to figure it out, you are using your brain while watching. Or a show like Battlestar Galactica which is so intelligently written and shows the parallels between this future world and ours, also requires a great deal of thinking.

A much funnier take on this video is the Alec Baldwin Hulu commercial

I can absolutely understand what direction you're coming from. Corporations, politicians, and lobbyists are successfully controlling what we watch and buy. Subliminal messages and propagandist images are a part of our every day life, and the only way to tune them out is to avoid mainstream media and scams.

good posting!

I studied advertising decades ago . the knew more about mass manipulation than any shrink alive then . Don't let children watch it . they have no mental defenses, and their psyches will be carved out like real estate, for brand loyalty . They will be enslaved by a twisted body image unreachable for most . They will be programed to consume without question , ideas as well as material things. Listen to music , go outside, independent artist produce many good documentaries , read ..... make your own life an epic, you the hero .

T.V. is DEAD......Go educate yourself

So if you watch a documentary on any given subject, what is the difference between that and reading a single book on the same subject? Of course, besides the fact that you can have footage of said topic, diagrams, multiple sources of input (visual, auditory, and textual) versus text and perhaps diagrams/pictures. I think the only complaint that is of significance is the abuse of such an outlet as television. People reading tabloids are receiving damaging misinformation in the same sense as someone watching a television show transmitting misinformation/disinformation.

A mixture of informational sources is great to have. Applying the information we learn in our practical lives and exercising the knowledge derived in the physical world is optimal. Being unbalance in any one direction is detrimental to peak performance. Someone that acts in the physical world without any knowledge can be just has harmful as someone who does not act in the physical world and only absorbs information. Information by itself is nothing. It can be right or wrong and not matter if it is not acted upon. Asserting knowledge and acting upon it is where that line is crossed.

An example of acting in the world without knowledge being detrimental is the slash and burn techniques being used in tropical rainforests of South America and Africa. These techniques are far more damaging than the resources produced validate, but is the only means known by those acting upon them.

Television can be a good tool for the dissemination of knowledge to a broad base of people that may not otherwise be able to access said knowledge. Although, the internet will be a far better source in the near future. At this point the issue of the internet as a source of knowledge is the amount of information that lacks credibility as knowledge making the ability to discern between the two very difficult for individuals lacking the ability to understand the difference.

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While I agree that many of us watch entirely too much tv, it's not so much tv thats the problem as it is the programs and channels we're watching. I will personally mute my tv when commercials come on, and tend to whatever needs tending to rather than sitting there for three minutes watching people tell me buy, buy, buy! There's alot of good programming out there with information that I wouldn't mind slipping into the coffers of my subliminal mind. It's about choices, just like anything else. Stepping away from the box for a while and experiencing the real world wouldn't hurt either.

Kill your TV!

This is a cute video with several messages. The undeniable fact the video presents is that the 500 biggest corporations spend billions on TV content and advertising to distort our views of reality.

However, did anybody catch the fact that it uses all the techniques that it is railing against? For example, the Mozart music to put the mind in the alpha state, and the violence laden images to get the mind to have those suppressed emotional reactions.

i will admit i have more than once been traped by the television.its sad that a person can sit at home watching tv for hours when he has a room full of books, a shit load of homework and a moutian behind his house and a creek across the street that is dying to be explored.

And this would be why I do not and will not have television in my home.

Thanks for posting!

I haven't watched the video yet, but, in theory it should allow/cause you to believe an alternate reality exists.

My perception of the world is certainly controlled by the news (AH!!! The sky is falling!!! etc.), but yet I had a plan to conquer the world using television as the primary weapon/tool at some point, so this looks interesting.

Good topic Mobius! Our next problem will be the TV and Internet manipulation trends!

Totally different from the television in Europe.