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What electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print created world demanded and created was tremendous depression of diversity.
Print created concepts like the citizen, that is a print created notion. It created notions like the public, there was no public before print, that idea didn't even exist.
TV is... the first of the electronic drugs.
books are actually what turned me into a conspiracy type person and i didn't know it till I interacted with people who watch constant tv. our views differed.. and i was labeled as such.
everything you stated leads me to believe that TV possibly made you anxious and turned you into a conspiracy buff... but simply because that is the way it happened to you. it does not mean that is the way it happened to everyone who can be labeled a conspiracy theory buff. people tend to reflect themselves on others.
Originally posted by Astyanax
reply to post by ZeuZZ
I didn't watch the McKenna video, but I disagree that the cure for TV is the internet. Or rather it is, but only in the way that heroin is a cure for addiction to raw opium.
his study aims to explore the effects of TV viewing on the cultivation of fear and interpersonal trust among Israeli youth, and to make methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of cultivation. Besides testing cultivation theory using an Israeli sample, the present study focuses on the effects of different genres on attitudes in different sub‐populations. Results show that for each demographic group, moderate but significant cultivation effects were associated with the genres favored by that group. Examples of high‐risk as well as low‐risk viewers are identified and discussed.
Originally posted by mandyup
I consider Facebook to be more powerful than TV because not only you are exposed to groups and uncensored content but you can also interact too.
Originally posted by mandyup
You go to reddit and see people taking on the news editors for a biased headline or a story. There is much more intellect following blogs and reading real time reviews.edit on 22-8-2013 by mandyup because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by autopat51
TV is real...
thats why we have so many "reality" shows
reality is TV..TV is reality...
dont look away.....its real.