Talk:Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

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I'm all for the elimination of television. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.47.172.216 (talk) 16:23, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

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This is absolutely one of the finest books I've read. It really helps one understand how the individual is/has been divested(robbed)of his great human potential. Though 70% of the world population have no access to electricity, the 30% do. These 30% people have had their actions and activities altered or arrested by their use of the television. The writer of the book explains how an "artificial" reality is planted in the typical viewer. Because they don't know anything else, they believe and alter their own lives based upon it, not based on the good nature around us. The viewers believe it is reality, however they are all separated into their own homes all getting the same single input, essentially. The author further explains an interesting example, which I will expand. Think of multiple hundreds of millions of people around the world all sitting still to watch a football game (I've been one several times). All of us are stopped in our tracks. Were are not building healthy ideas, healthy inventions, making healthy developments in the real world around our individual environments where with we walk. This is an amazing way to stop people from moving forward in freedom. If people would turn off the tube and start living and developing a meaningful relationship with people around us, then this takes back our power and our lives. The media lords (I coined this phrase)would have a tizzy, they want to control our buying habits, thinking and so on. There is another book worth reading, "The Plug in Drug" and "How to Unplug from the Plug in Drug" by a different author. The interment (television) itself is very detrimental in many ways, especially how it is used to pump immoral and good right thoughts into the homes of the electrical mass built mind. I can't help but think how China have millions of men march in exact step with lock, stock and barrel. Those men's minds are controlled to the nth degree.

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• ... that Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is the first book that collects information from various sources to determine how the wide availability of television affects society?

• Reviewed: Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire de Clausonne

5x expanded by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 05:16, 4 April 2021 (UTC).

• DYK check states that the article hasn't been 5x expanded because of a blatant copyright violation that was added in 2007 and removed shortly after. SL93 (talk) 05:18, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

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Overall: Looks good. Interesting topic! —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 05:51, 10 April 2021 (UTC)