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Monday, July 14, 2008

"Maniac Mondays - Weapons Of Mass Distraction!"


We all have at least 1. Me myself I have four weapons of mass distraction in my house five if you count the one in the PC. They rate right up there with religion as far as peddling myths, lies, half truths and hatred. So I was talking to some people and the topic turned to 911 and what we saw or thought we saw that day. Now without getting into a discussion about 911 which I will leave for the next Conspiracy Corner Post, but needless to say it came down to what they saw or thought they saw televised live. My next question was, "So I guess you believe everything that they show you on TV", and invariably the answer was yes. Now they tried to flip the script and say I believe everything I read or see on the Internet. Of course I went into my rant about how the Internet is the last refuge of free speech left in this country but even that is under attack now by the neo-clowns and the BCS but that went on deaf ears because of what they had heard on TV...

Now I am working on a new 911 video and a particular clip I am using in that video fit's perfectly with these thoughts...



This is a big part of the problem here in America, the thinking that the government would never lie to it's citizens and the belief that everything they see on TV is real. You ever watched a child looking at TV?! They are transfixed and the only thing that breaks that transfixion is turning the TV off or changing the channel. Not too mention we now have Playstation and Wii and a thousand different channels to keep you watching it instead of the things that are going on around you especially in the world at large. The Disposable Heroes of HipHoprisy (Michael Franti & Spearhead) said it best on their song Television the Drug of a Nation:

One Nation under God
has turned into
One Nation under the influence
of one drug

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V., I.T. satellite links
our United States of unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
the methadone metronome pumping out
150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching

T.V. is the reason why less than ten percent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
and Apartheid is a new headache remedy

absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our minds the most
maybe the mother of our Nation
should remind us
that we're sitting to close to. . .

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V. is
the stomping ground for political candidates
Where bears in the woods
are chased by Grecian Formula'd
bald eagles

T.V. is mechanized politic's
remote control over the masses
co-sponsored by environmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special

It's the perpetuation of the two party system
where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
the fast food culture

Where straight teeth in your mouth
are more important than the words
that come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or
Will he not get elected on . . .

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V. is it the reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us or do we imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's
twelve years old and we wonder how we've created
a Jason generation that learns to laugh
rather than abhor the horror

T.V. is the place where
armchair generals and quarterbacks can
experience first hand
the excitement of video warfare
as the theme song is sung in the background

Sugar sweet sitcoms
that leave us with a bad actor taste while
pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video
You heard the soundtrack
Well now go buy the soft drink
Well, the only cola that I support
would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allowance)
On Television.

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

Back again, "New and Improved",
we return to our irregularly programmed schedule
hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
beer and car commercials

CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S.
Where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless" "fresh frozen"
"light yet filling" and "military intelligence"
have become standard

T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
and being killed by your own Army
is now called "friendly fire"

T.V. is the place where the pursuit
of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children
by a cathode ray nipple
T.V. is the only wet nurse
that would create a cripple

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
On Television . . .



Yeah that sums it up nicely...Read A Book!



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