How Advertising And Entertainment Shapes Your Subconscious

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9. Television has a huge influence on people. I see it every day in a WTF? way...

... even in posts here on DU.

My own crackpot theory is that a few ancient and simple parts of the human mind don't know television is not reality. Not even the television news is real.

I don't watch television, no broadcast, no cable, no satellite. My computer blocks all advertising that moves or makes noise. I simply don't see television or television-type advertising and news in my daily life anymore, and the longer I avoid it, the more peculiar it seems when I do see it.

Television is very clearly tuned to those parts of our minds we are not especially aware of.as we go about our "normal" lives, where sadly that "normal" is defined in some ways by what we see on television.

I often watch dogs and parrots first response to television. Dogs almost immediately dismiss television, I suspect because they can't smell what they see, and the higher frequency sounds only dogs hear are missing. Parrots dismiss television perhaps because their color vision is so much better than ours; to a parrot even the most expensive high resolution television probably looks like flickering mud and sounds just as bad.