Why I Don’t Watch TV.

I don’t own a TV (I do look at DVDs, and have a respectable DVD collection). Occasionally, people ask me how I “know what’s going on” without it. I tell them that since I eliminated TV from my life, I have a clearer understanding of reality.

When one removes oneself from the influence of the popular culture, one’s perception is no longer polluted with contaminants from an artificial pseudo-culture. The programming itself is horrible. Consider: 50% of what is on TV is a commercial of one form or another. Out of the remaining 50%, 95% is mindless garbage (or disinformation) that is an insult to the intelligence of any human being. Now, cable TV charges for its services. This means that we are expected to pay money to look at advertisements and substandard programming that will nullify our intellects and narrow our view of the world.

It is a mistake to assume that the TV / media makes money from its viewers. It doesn’t work like that. The media sells air time to advertisers. There are corporations who exist exclusively to generate profit through advertising. The two parties not only analyze and assess, but stimulate consumer trends and patterns in purchasing. Add to this the fact that whatever current political dialectic is required of those governmental agents that work for the international banking cartels is subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) propagated on the news and entertainment programs.

The conclusion is obvious: the audiences are the product that are being sold. To add insult to injury, we are expected to pay the media and corporations for the “privilege” of being sold like cattle in the marketplace.

What kind of a world view do you expect these people to show you?

I invite those who still look at the TV to a little experiment. Pick a TV series (drama, sitcom, whatever) at random. The only criterion is that it is a popular program. Pay attention to the speech patterns of the characters; little phrases, ideas expressed in a particular way, unusual slang, etc. Then listen to the way people speak. People around you that are obvious TV viewers. You will notice that within two months or so, the aforementioned speech patterns will have become part of their vernacular. You will also notice that almost nobody will be aware of how these phrases came to be part of their vocabulary.

After observing several instances of this, ask yourself how you feel about having your culture, beliefs, language, and thought patterns dictated to you by an invisible oligarchy that sees you as an expendable commodity.