Just had a terrible confrontation w/ a friend: Damn Fox "news" to hell!

[Turbineguy]

15. It seems to me that we need some sort of antidote

to the effects of Fox News propaganda. I think of it a bit like heroin. Anybody can become addicted. But you have to start by taking it.

Years ago I asked my Doctor "How can people inject themselves with this stuff?" She replied that the reward was greater than the reluctance to stick a needle in their arm.

Fox News being a psychological addiction can be overcome by not watching it. But I'm sure there must be some sort of withdrawal.

This propaganda has the effect of a base-level emotional satisfaction that becomes worse. I think this feeling and the further need for it become so strong that people arrange their lives around it, they make decisions in such a way that the result is this satisfied feeling. It's not based on logic or facts.

In normal circumstances we are all subjected to these pressures. Marketing people use it to sell cars. But with a car, you have the physical fact of owning the car to tell you if you are happy with your decision or not.

With Fox propaganda you only have the emotional feeling to reward you. It's not physical substance.

We need to figure out how to de-program millions of people who are owned by their belief in this stuff.