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 John Lennon
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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Brad Holland
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
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Chris M. Carmichael
If you experience "mind fog" after watching television, you are not alone. Studies have shown that watching television induces low alpha waves in the human brain. Alpha waves are brainwaves between 8 to 12 HZ. and are commonly associated with relaxed meditative states as well as brain states associated with suggestibility.
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Neil Postman
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.
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Chuck Palahniuk
(Fight Club: A Novel)
I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact and we're very very pissed off.
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John Irving
(A Prayer for Owen Meany)
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.
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Neil Postman
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.
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Edward Bernays
(Propaganda, 1928)
The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions.
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Thomas Jefferson
(3rd President of U.S.A.)
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
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[POP OCCULTURE]:
When you hear of so-called Christians killing each other in the ghetto, Christian pastors raping their children in the suburbs and Christians nationalists sponsoring war worldwide - have you ever wondered why? - Is the Christian belief system inherently flawed? - or has it been deviously supplanted by something else? - something like Pop Occulture?
Pop Occulture is the supernatural influence popgods (Movie stars, Musicians, etc) have on the set of lifestyle aspirations and values of its members (poptards, or blisstards). The conduit, the priest, the overlord of this occult is the Twonky (TV), which connects the popgods to its members. The product of this occultivation is self-indulgent apathetic behavior, superficial ideals and above all fear of rejection/disapproval for disobeying the Twonky’s doctrine. Since Twonky watching dominates the daily American routine, the majority of Americans are indeed Pop Occulture members - devoutness varies.
This Twonky oriented mindset has such a stranglehold on American ethics that it is rare to find the message of love-appreciation in Pop Occulture. But when defiance to the fear-consume indoctrination appears, it is beautiful and deserves a highlighter.
[FATHER]: Ahhh! Beer, popcorn and the game. This is such a good life that I sometimes think I should throw myself to the floor and pray to Milwaukee five times a day. Then again, I might lose the remote control.
[SON]: Yes, yes, that’s the goal. If everyone lost their remotes, we might once again have thinking in this country. We might have revolution. The remote is a government-designed government-preservative; the remote is a weapons system aiming to destroy families and ALL human connection.
[FATHER]: Little Bucket, Little Bucket, you need to calm down. No more Liberty Wires for you. Everything good, like seeing the Cubs NOT winning the World Series every year, isn’t some high-flying Government conspiracy. The remote was invented by the same simple type guy who came up with the secret recipe for Colt 45. Just a good American mind put to work by his American spirit. Then again... the new Roman Coliseums – NASCAR, NFL, etc – keep the voting base dull minded and happy.
Hmmm....I don’t like conversations like this. I start to lose confidence.
[SON]: Your aversion to reality is your loss. The path to steady progress is NOT marked by the purchase of lottery tickets and malt liquor. The Twonky (TV) is lying to you.
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