Well, I hinted about this pet hate of mine in my first post on this blog Who Is Edwyn Prose?, so I’ll expand a bit on this right here now that I got some spare time to vent my anger at the way a perfectly good entertainment outlet has been abused by everyone and his dog hell bent on manipulating the public at large.
Whoah, does that sound like a bold statement or what?
Well, I’ll tell you folks, you’re being sucked in hook, line and sinker and what beggars belief is that you’re all falling for it without even questioning it. I can’t believe there are intelligent Americans out there who don’t have a clue what is being done to them and are quite happy to let it keep being done!
People, television is being used to brainwash you!
It’s been used like that since the earliest times, but its only in the last couple decades that politicians, advertisers and the like have figured out how to use it to manipulate and obfuscate a captive audience of millions of people. Ok, advertisers have the edge because they’ve been going at this for decades and they know all the angles. Yup, they can sell refrigerators to the Eskimos and make them grateful they bought the top of the line model with a built-in ice maker too! You betcha!
But more recently, politicians have seen the obvious opinion manipulation properties of this huge media monster and use it to its fullest ability. Hell, how many of you really voted for GWB last time around because you thought he was a great guy? After what he did in Iraq and the way he spent our tax dollars like confetti and then left us all heading for poverty with a rapidly devaluing dollar worldwide – oh yeah the American public was suckered right in there.
But its not just the political arena that’s the reason why I hate television – its the insidious leftie influence its having on our population.
Kids grow up with no respect for adults any more. The police are treated as a joke too. All this is because of television programs that show kids dissing adults and bad guys getting the better of the police. Kids watch that crap and believe it’s the way real life is, so they just go out and do what they see actors do on TV.
Is there someone to blame? Well, you might want to blame the people behind the TV shows that have degraded our society. Or you might want to blame the actors and actresses who portray the bad guys winning. Or you might want to blame the government for allow this to happen.
On Each count you would be wrong, wrong, wrong!
The only person to blame is yourself. The blame lies squarely at the feet of the parents who let their kids watch that crap without having the balls to stop them. Sure you could cite all kinds of excuses, but they’re all lame – a parent who lets their kids do what ever they want have lost the plot and are gonna end up with a new generation of adults with no respect for anything.
Don’t believe me?
I don’t mind if you don’t believe me – hell, why should you? You know best, right?
Just remember to turn the other way next time you see some kid shooting up heroine, or running over someone in a car they just jacked, or robbing a 7/11 with a gun, or beating the crap outta some poor defenseless old person. It ain’t your fault baby! Blame society or someone else cause it ain’t your fault your kids saw it on TV, right?
Don’t think television is the root of all evil?
Think again!
Edwyn Prose 