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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Wed Sep 25, 2013, 11:04 PM Sep 2013

TV: Your Mind. Controlled. [View all]

“Our society is rapidly coming apart at the seams and people are seriously starting to lose it… Way too many Americans seem to be losing all sense of what is right and what is wrong. Way too many Americans seem to be losing all sense of what it means to treat others with dignity and respect… It is almost as if some sort of mental illness is spreading throughout our society that is expressing itself in thousands of different ways. We are seeing anger, rage, malice and brutality rise to very dangerous levels. Our population has become way too greedy, proud, selfish and hateful. America is on a very dangerous road and we need to wake up.”

*A general sense of apathy is spreading through the populace like a cancer and it begs the question: even if we wanted to “wake up,” could we?

According to last year’s Nielsen report, the average American over the age of two years old watches more than 34 hours of television per week, plus at least three more hours of taped programming. The report also noted that the amount of time we spend watching television increases as we get older.

Back in 1969, a man named Herbert Krugman conducted a series of experiments regarding the effect of television on a person’s brainwaves. What he found was pretty startling:

“Krugman monitored a person through many trials and found that in less than one minute of television viewing, the person’s brainwaves switched from Beta waves — brainwaves associated with active, logical thought — to primarily Alpha waves. When the subject stopped watching television and began reading a magazine, the brainwaves reverted to Beta waves.”

http://truthstreammedia.com/tv-your-mind-controlled/

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TV: Your Mind. Controlled. [View all] damnedifIknow Sep 2013 OP
TV should come in IV form mindwalker_i Sep 2013 #1
ROFL "Goodness." Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #6
An anecdote for your post. woo me with science Sep 2013 #2
Television, the Drug of the Nation johnnyreb Sep 2013 #3
LOL! And here I thought I was the only one that posted that video. Egalitarian Thug Sep 2013 #25
It's been many years since Newton Minow's famous "vast wasteland" comment. Ron Green Sep 2013 #4
as chomsky said tiny elvis Sep 2013 #5
I probably spent at least 30 hours a week watching TV in elementary school, Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #7
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #9
I think that's one of the reasons we watched Wild Kingdom Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #10
We always went over to my grandparents house to watch it. Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #11
Sis, is that you? Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #13
i suspect it was a pretty common experience, back in the day. Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #14
That bouncing ball made me dizzy Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #15
OMG you guys pipi_k Sep 2013 #19
"Out of the blue of the western sky comes... Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #21
Lots of western movies back in those days, too. Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #22
Johnny Quest pipi_k Sep 2013 #32
The Jonny Quest episode that freaked me out the most Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #33
That wasn't Johnny Quest. kentauros Sep 2013 #34
When I had a radio show back in the mid-90s kentauros Sep 2013 #35
I think we also watched Ted Mack's Amateur Hour Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #18
Thirty-four hours of television per week? Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #8
No clue damnedifIknow Sep 2013 #12
You must have very high standards and a finely developed mind el_bryanto Sep 2013 #20
Well I just find TV boring damnedifIknow Sep 2013 #36
TCM (Turner Classic Movies) for one. kentauros Sep 2013 #17
I do enjoy TCM. Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #27
The Documentary Channel recently turned into "Pivot" kentauros Sep 2013 #30
I did not know that about the Documentary Channel ... Adsos Letter Sep 2013 #31
Simpsons quote... Javaman Sep 2013 #16
National Anthem when TV stations signed off at night... MinM Sep 2013 #23
TV sells audiences to advertisers. KurtNYC Sep 2013 #24
so it's fine to post criticism of tv for cali Sep 2013 #26
Good point, cali Link Speed Sep 2013 #29
this is one reason I have not owned a television in more then 20 years.... mike_c Sep 2013 #28
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