 It's Official: TV Linked to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
2004 10 24
A study from the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that watching videos as a toddler may lead to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, also called ADD in UK) in later life. TV watching "rewires" an infant’s brain, says Dr. Dimitri A. Christakis lead researcher and director of the Child Health Institute at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Wash.
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 The Subversive Use of Sacred Symbolism in the Media - Symbol Literacy (Part One)
2005 09 28
Without inheriting and absorbing the gnosis of symbolism the individual intellectual apparatus can never move toward the prehension of wisdom. As J. Krishnamurti, Carl Gustav Jung, Joseph Campbell and others have warned, it is simply not possible. And as Brian Wilson Keys, Vance Packard, Jane Kilbourne and others have detailed, the psyche of entire generations can be contaminated by the subversive use of symbols.
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 The Subversive Use of Sacred Symbolism in the Media - Symbol Literacy (Part Two)
2005 09 30
Due to chronic symbol illiteracy we tend to be unaware of a great poison in our midst, something that has a profound effect, negatively, on our conscious and unconscious selves. This is the use of subliminal persuasion in media and advertising. This persuasion constitutes nothing less than a psychic dictatorship.
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 Subliminal Advertising and Modern Day Brainwashing
2004 09 10
The advertising industry, a prominent and powerful industry, engages in deceptive subliminal advertising which most us are unaware of. By bypassing our unconscious mind using subliminal techniques, advertisers tap into the vulnerabilities surrounding our unconscious mind, manipulating and controlling us in many ways. Since the 1940's subliminal advertising blossomed until now, when you can find subliminals in every major advertisement and magazine cover.
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 Clotaire Rapaille - Reptilian Marketing (Video)
2007 03 07
Each year, legions of ad people, copywriters, market researchers, pollsters, consultants, and even linguists—most of whom work for one of six giant companies—spend billions of dollars and millions of man-hours trying to determine how to persuade consumers what to buy, whom to trust, and what to think. Increasingly, these techniques are migrating to the high-stakes arena of politics, shaping policy and influencing how Americans choose their leaders.
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Douglas Rushkoff's: The Merchants of Cool (Video)
2007 02 14
They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. They conduct endless surveys and focus groups. They comb the streets, the schools, and the malls, hot on the trail of the "next big thing" that will snare the attention of their prey--a market segment worth an estimated $150 billion a year. They are the merchants of cool: creators ... |
 Mass Mind Control Through Network Television
2006 03 13
Why do countless American people go along with the War on Iraq? Why do so many people call for a police state control grid? A major component to a full understanding of why this kind of governmental and corporate corruption is to discover the modern science of mind control and social engineering. It's baffling to merely glance at the stacks of documentation that this world government isn't being constructed for the greater good of humanity. Although there are a growing number of people waking up the reality of our growing transparent soft cage, there seems to be just enough citizens who are choosing to remain asleep.
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 How Television Controls And Programs Minds
2005 03 14
The subconcscious is powerful. It is aware of every particle and detail around you. But it doesn't know the difference between fact or fiction and acts on all information passing through the conscious mind as fact, and responds to it. So what do you think happens when you watch silly, moron, goofy commercials and television programs? They are training your thought processes.
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 Children Who Watch TV More Likely to Bully - Study
2005 04 06
The more television 4-year-old children watch the more likely they are to become bullies later on in school, a U.S. study said Monday. At the same time, children whose parents read to them, take them on outings and just generally pay attention to them are less likely to become bullies, said the report from the University of Washington.
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 In-house memos on television news presentations
2003 09 30
It has long been the strong belief of many Americans that their print and television media is subject to certain government oversight and, finally, control. Recently, a mid-level executive of one of the three major American television networks sent on over 1500 pages of memos from the corporate offices of his network in New York to the head of their television news division.
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 Too Much TV 'Turns Young Into Fat Adults
2004 07 15
Parents were urged last night to limit children's exposure to television after a study found excessive viewing could damage long-term health. Children aged between five and 15 who sat in front of a television for more than two hours a day tended to be fatter as adults, have higher cholesterol and smoke more.
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 UltraViolent Atrocities Saturate Pop Culture
2005 11 02
You might think that you've already gotten a bellyful of Hollywood violence, from Psycho to Pulp Fiction. But many pop-culture experts agree that the lavish intensity of today's carnage makes previous eras look dainty. "Characters were beheaded in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance in 1916, but it was shown quickly and in long shot. "Today you might see it in slow motion, with close-ups from multiple camera set-ups.
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 The Dream of Television
2005 06 10
Reducing theta brain waves while simultaneously raising alpha waves enhances concentration resulting in: 1) reduction of errors; 2) greater attention to detail; 3) increased self control; 4) sustained attention to tasks; 5) ability to shut off environmental distractions.” I conclude that playing cello uses more of my brain than doing homework, and watching TV is like sleeping.
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