At 11:16 PM 12/10/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>Ok, here's where I'm coming from. When you say "this country" what exactly
>are you talking about? As you examine that question, I'll tell you what's
>on my mind. Our society is moving toward mediated reality. When you sit a
>baby in front of a video machine and give him hours and hours of tv to
>watch from the moment he's born till he's old enough to vote, then all his
>concepts, all his ideas and all his basic attitudes will have been
>programmed into him from an artificial source.
>
>Humans didn't evolve that way. Our eyes have always been the portal to our
>brains and the patterns we perceive in Nature make up the building blocks
>of experience and consciousness itself. Buy allowing this process to be
>mediated, an artificial reality to make up this consciousness formation, we
>are putting our minds directly under the control of corporate giants whose
>main goal is profit - not quality. Humans are being reduced intellectualy
>by the process. Many realize this but don't even care.
>
>
>Meanwhile, the social beast is becoming so huge and vast, that it seems
>impossible for dynamic quality to influence the monster and thats a problem
>because there are real issues that need to be resolved to prevent the
>tragedys of the commons. Real problems, but no real leaders to deal with
>them.
>
>Now, back to your statement about blowing things out of proportion. That's
>the six o'clock news you're talking about there. TV news is what defines
>our country for us today. It's also what defines our country for others
>overseas. TV defines reality for most. Moneyed interests control TV.
>It's a static social trap that doesn't appear to have any loopholes where
>quality can dynamically evolve.
>
>I believe we gotta problem Houston.
Now the above is something that has real possibilities for consideration!!
Movement to DQ is not predestined. It may be impossible given the mass
media influences described above. I hope not--but I am afraid that it is.
Frank--"The Eternal Noviate"
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