Massive infusions of omnipresent "Reality TV" are deliberately conditioning the dumbed-down sheep to the Big Brother global surveillance grid while at the same time it is dehumanizing, depersonalizing, degrading, demeaning and demoralizing television pablum for the masses. In other words, it is just more mind-control crap.

How to marry big brother

As humans, we have been gleefully watching people do stupid things for millennia. From the earliest Cro-Magnon lighting his beard on fire (to uproarious laughter from his fellow cave dwellers, no doubt) to the medieval court jester, and from the Barnum and Bailey Circus to the television-age addiction to "reality TV," we love to watch people flounder and fail. We like embarrassment; at least when it doesn't happen to us. Without a doubt, the headshrinkers could fill books analyzing our collective voyeurism; and in fact they have.

Such obsessive satisfaction in the misfortune of others, and the burgeoning use of technology to share in it real time, however, carries with it a political component, and it is not positive. Simply put, the current obsession with reality TV has immunized American society to the changes wrought by pervasive government surveillance.

http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20041024-110609-6216r.htm


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Top Stories - October 25th, 2004