The ironic thing about radio and TV

[SHRED]

I think a lot of genuinely concerned citizens turn to these for information. In fact I know they do.
They genuinely believe that listening to say Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, etc...is somehow an outsider's viewpoint. A viewpoint supporting the "little guy".
As if these types of shows are the critical views to what we are facing as opposed to what they really are; the mouthpieces for what is wrong.


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[pscot]

1. I think we must be hardwired to respond positively

to a loud, assertive, self-confident voice, regardless of what it says. Life is uncertain. We want absolute answers. Rush and Hannity and that weasel Beck provide them, but they do so in the service of a larger vision. The older I get, the more convinced I become that most of us operate on an instinctive level most of the time. The advertising business figured this out a hundred years ago. Hitler and Goebbels were certainly aware of it and used it. Television perfected the techniques, and now it's being used to manipulate us both commercialy and politicaly. The din of agitprop is non-stop. It's no wonder the country is fucked up.

[noneisthenumber]

2. I Think You Are Onto Something Here

We most likely are hardwired to respond to an assertive, self confident voice. The position the radio or television speaker has is thus akin to an elder standing before the camp fire. There is something mesmerizing about the experience, as if a primal instinct is being engaged/exploited. It isn't a respected elder being given the floor by a tribe that knows and respects the elder's wisdom through personal experience, but to our instinctive mind this electronically operated substitute functions in a similar but ultimately deceptive way.