Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Loving The Mainstream Media

I LOVE THE AMERICAN mainstream media. You heard me. Whatever that thing is, that everyone hates so much, that thing called "the mainstream media", I love it. All of it. All the television networks and channels, the social media online, Facebook, radio, talk radio, all of it. Well, not so much "The Kardashians" - them I could do without, so I do. Likewise most reality TV. Enough is enough, already. Then too, all commericials are corporate brainwashing crap, and have you noticed that about the only thing television attempts to do these days is seduce us with sex and violence? Plus, it must be admitted taht social media is a veritable quagmire of low culture. and yet, to repeat...in general, I love the mainstream American media, simply because so many Americans villify it, and blame their ills on it, which is absolutely hilarious, its so stupid. The more everyone else hates it, the more I love it, which is the way I do Obama and Obamacare. I dare to think outside the box. I am a contrarian, and I recommend it for everyone. Whatever it is, this mainstream media, its neither liberal nor conservative. The major complaints about the mainstream American media is that it is liberal, and that it lies. Of course it lies, we all do. Get over it. Learn to see through it. But the media aint pro liberal. Overall, its pro profit, attention seeking, seductive, sensational, shocking. If you can't see that by now, see it now. As much as I love the mainstream media, I love my freedom to ignore it, and to ridicule it. The media a vehicle for the spread of information. It seeks to caputre our rapt attention, and to take our money from us, conspiring with the maintstream American corporate community to so do. Don't follow the herd. Ditch your text messenger; maybe even talk into your phone once in a blue moon. One possibility might be to disconnect the cable and satellite, get a ten dollar radio, and get all your news from National Public Radio. Save a lot of money that way, homes. A cheap tablet and public WiFi will do, for internet access. Like Bernie Sanders keeps saying, we need a revolution in America, political and economic. By cutting off home television and internet, we bypass the big corporations and can still stay in touch. I love the mainstream American media, but probably not for the reasons the mainstream American media would like me to love it. Call it a barometer on American societal health and nature. By criticizing or ignoring it, we can influence it to change, for the better. Or at least, we can try.

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