Thursday, February 15, 2007

The Product Is You...

Television is a boxed Hate generator. Don't believe me? Turn it off for a week and see how you are affected.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's rite folk's...


I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help . . . no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

That's right, folks . . .
Don't touch that dial

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin' room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go
I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin' room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go

Anonymous said...

I think the little box we are using now is just as big, if not a bigger, hate generator.

At least on the TV I can watch a rerun of Andy Griffith, and feel no hate and see no hate.

Historical Wit said...

what sells? Sex and violence. hate is but a subculture of violence.

¿Yh8? said...

Fitting Zappa song Nu!

Great observation anon, and a point well made. But you have to admit, that silly deputy could work on a nerve after a while.

¿Yh8? said...

Dat shiznit was deep wit. We posted at the same time, otherwise I'd have included you in my response.

MsNobody said...

I just turned my dish back on this month. . . Court TV, Forensic Files, CSI, CSI, CSI. . . If only the world could go back to the days of Andy Griffith

Anonymous said...

@anonymus :my overseas view is blurred. who's Andy Griffith? "feel no hate see no hate"...must be one of them teletubbies? @historical wit : hate is also something that lives together with anger and fear. powerfull emotions that help us finding our way and place among other humans and even animals. I think it's basicaly a 'good' and even helpfull emotion.
As Gustave Flaubert say'd "hate is a virtue" Damn shame the dude is dead.

Historical Wit said...

Nu- hate gets in the way of objectivity. I like to recognize it, but not to let the hate affect anything. True, even the worset of emotions can serve a good purpose, if the person using those have the mental abilty to control what they are feeling.

¿Yh8? said...

Nu, Andy Griffith is an old tv show that had become an American symbol of life in a small town. Here's a sample of the show

Anonymous said...

historical wit. we are all similar were it comes to potential powersources like love or anger.(some might call it eros and thanatos) But we differ in the way we can control or use it. I tend to like people that express disappointment or anger in a humorous or gentle way. Just what's happening on this site here.
I dont know if hate gets in the way of objectivity, if so I would say that love does the same. But it's an intersting thought and I'm gonna dream about this!
yh8 tnx bud for filling the gap of american show history

Historical Wit said...

Why yes love does. Love is the enemy of precision. And thats not a bad thing.

Anonymous said...

The Andy Griffith Show,in my opinion,was a 30 minute morality play.It began with a dilemma and ended with a solution.If I was given 30 minutes to live and HAD to watch one 1/2 hr. episode of television,I would request to see "Opie the Birdman".
Opie:"The cage sure looks awful empty,don't it,Pa?"
Andy:"Yes son,it sure does...But don't the trees seem nice and full."

Nu said...

@anonymos:in your opininon 'aweful' and 'empty' are no dilemma's and 'nice' and 'full' are no solutions? The puppy that doesn't know spring has arrived...is a buddah.

Anonymous said...

nu:I have an 'aweful'complextion problem and my bank account is 'empty'.However,my dermatologist prescibed a 'nice' cream to remedy this and my accountant recently sent the IRS my tax return and I am getting the 'full' refund.About my puppy;well he died,'cause the exterminator put out some bait for my rodent problem and the pup ate it.buddah? An agnostic doesn't recognize those types.no reply necessary.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous, i thank u for ure kind words and regret bringing up your pup. may he rest in one peace.