TV & Radio Dumb Down hits New Zealand
Tuesday, March 20th 2007 @ 12:00 AM (not yet rated)
News Media the major influences of consensus reality, in particular and entertainment in general be it local or global, is near on a farce.
Owned by or influenced by corporate interests in most cases in bed with governments, world media keeps us uniformed as it sensationalises the macabre and the violent and trivialises the important and meaningful.
Here in NZ the ‘dumbing down’ process is ‘full steam ahead.’ The three major TV corporations generally open the News with violence and war or a police report from the courts or a disaster from somewhere.
All three TV stations consistently stream daily trash into our living rooms where our sensitive and open hearted children sit, watching and absorbing it all. The impact of horror and pain insidiously traumatises us by consistently eroding our faith in the higher virtues of humanity, so that we finally become so inured to it all, that we feel it’s actually normal for the world at large to be gross, grey and violent.
With a daily blitz of detritus and crud, we are witnessing an orchestrated attack on the sensitivities of the global human population.
The result. We walk away from watching the news totally disillusioned with what's happening on earth.
And we take this ‘brainwashing’ into the community at large. (Though if our local sports team has been successful we go away with a temporary ‘warm fuzzy, until of course the team loses.)
Who is the person responsible for the selection of news items as well as other violent programs?
Why do ‘they’ hide behind anonymity? (News papers and radio are the same in NZ.)
Is the prerequisite for choosing the news items to be broadcast or published, that you are a isolated silent psychopath?
We need to see their name and picture and the whites of their eyes, as the buck stops with them. The bottom line ... aren’t they the ones initiating / perpetuating this BS and negative propaganda?
What’s the Answer?
The optimistic and positive side to all this is, there’s a universal archetype that enables humans to peacefully dialogue with fellow humanity.
This is: Say something pleasant, then say what needs to be said, and then finish with something warm and positive.
International Toast Masters use this same archetype / philosophy at all their meetings.
The NZ Maori have since their emergence used the same procedure. Their method;
Sing a song (waiata), say what is needed to be said, then finish again with a song.
Positive, (maybe) negative, positive. The 2 good qualities overrides the 1 negative.
Is it that difficult ... to get it?
In other instances, when there is apparently no interesting news to broadcast, the media instead seem to go to the courts to find the latest grizzly or morbid case to continue the orchestrated mass demoralising of the human populace.
Where is the good news?
Where are the success stories?
The latest business initiative that offers sustainability?
Solutions to climate change?
New renewable energy systems coming out.
Peace initiatives by NGOs.
Solutions for children, education, new health enterprises, why holistic preferences are gaining acceptance.
Socially responsible investment successes.
Cultural break throughs.
Maori initiatives, organic gardens on all Maraes?
New geometric architecture and city plans and layouts.
Art, music and drama that inspires.
There are hundreds of unique, interesting, newsy items in every city and country just waiting to make their accomplishments and successes, public.
These news items would in turn encourage the community to be more pro active, optimistic, positive, bringing society together and validating affirmative deeds.
Yes, we need to know the bad news, but we don’t need to see 75% of the program slanted towards it. On TV it could be just read out, and the ghastly pictures not necessarily be shown.
So why is the present orchestrated litany of garbage and refuse being used to microwave the community ...?
1) Do we the people via our elected servants the Government, not collectively own the air waves in our respective countries?
2) Then ‘as the government’ rent these frequency waves of both radio and TV out to corporations and interested parties?
3) Then licensed to numb down, the corporation then broadcasts crap at us ... as entertainment and make a truck load of money from selling advertising in the process?
In a participatory democracy we the people actually participate and meet, talk, phone, email, write, and communicate with our elected servants to empower our elected servants to do our bidding.
Why have we become comfortably numb?
Lights on, nobody at home ...
and ....we went out to find the enemy ... and what we found was ... that the enemy was us?
