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   From: janeanddano@yahoo.com   
      
   "thinbluemime"  wrote in message news:op.wegh6pqy0rnx91@experience.belkin...   
      
   On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:50:24 +0100, Dano  wrote:   
      
   > "thinbluemime"  wrote in message   
   > news:op.wegf2tjx0rnx91@experience.belkin...   
   >   
   >   
   > The goal is not to establish a Ted Kaczynski lifestyle or maintain that   
   > kind of mindset. The off-switch goal is to afford quiet to reflect and   
   > think about what is important and how to achieve those things that lead   
   > to   
   > an abundant life. The mind-clutter of the boob tube is an addiction that   
   > might require an intervention of the electrical system to break the   
   > habit.   
   >   
   > Here's a challenge....Don't think you are addicted to the tube? Don't   
   > wait   
   > for a power outage, turn it off voluntarily today. Try it for 2 weeks,   
   > but   
   > be prepared for withdrawal symptoms for the first few days.   
   >   
   > =======================================================   
   >   
   > Honestly.  I don't know (or much care) WHAT your goal is.  I suspect you   
   > don't either, going by how all over the place you have been in this   
   > discussion.  I don't need your little challenge.  I KNOW exactly how   
   > addicted I am.  I think you are the one in denial really.   Obviously...to   
   > be posting in this group...discussing freaking TV shows  (for the most   
   > part...hopefully given the name of this group) we all must  be to some   
   > degree...or we wouldn't be here in the first place.   
      
      
   OK, let's back up and refresh pop-culture addicted memories. Quoting   
   Chomsky, here's where we began   
      
   "So it’s no great secret that the U.S. electoral system is mainly public   
   relations extravaganzas. They keep away from issues. It’s sort of a   
   marketing affair, and the people who run it are the advertisers. And they   
   had their national convention right after the 2008 election, and it   
   revealed that they understood perfectly what was going on. They gave Obama   
   the award for the best marketing campaign of the year. And if you go to   
   the business press, they were reporting how executives were really   
   excited. I mean, we have this new model as to how to, you know, delude   
   people, enacted in the—we used to use the Reagan model, now we can use the   
   Obama model for our delusional systems that we construct, which is pretty   
   much what the PR industry is about."   
      
      
      
   Much of what we see and hear on TV is smoke and mirrors to support a   
   delusional system. We live in a MATRIX we choose to live in, by our   
   constant immersion in the TV propaganda box.   
      
   To use a pop-culture reference, to break out of the MATRIX, we have to   
   turn it off. If we can't or refuse to, we might as well admit it we are   
   addicted to tube.   
      
      
   Turning off the tube is also a small, measurable step, a move toward a   
   solution to the bigger issues addressed by 'radical leftists' like   
   Chomsky. But unlike Chomsky's preaching to the choir, this hypocrite posts   
   to the lost in television land :)   
      
   So what is your solution again?   
      
   ==========================================   
      
   You seem confused.  Let me be clear.  I'M not the one claiming to HAVE the   
   solution.  That would be you and Chumley.   
      
   You're BOTH delusional...in that no one is listening to either of you.   
   Peace.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)