[goldfishbowl42]

The Idiot Lantern


Wow a post about how much people hate TV.

It can be good, documentaries are a useful and easy way to introduce people to topics, but most TV is Trash.

How much worse would your life be if you don't see that episode of friends repeated for the third time !!!!

In the UK we have a reality TV show called Big Brother, where millions of people every year watch a group of people live in a house for 10 weeks slowly being voted out by the public. The most idiotic and pointless pastime in the world.

GET SOME HELP. LEARN TO USE YOUR BRAIN.

TV is ideal for keeping the masses distracted and interested in buying your product like the good little consumers they are. It tells them to buy more beauty products because they are ugly, buy more electrical goods because they have more buttons than your one, buy more, buy more, buy more, buy more.


Oscar Wilde once said "Religion is the opium of the masses".

TV is the worlds new Religion.

[Devil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('goldfishbowl42', '
')Oscar Wilde once said "Religion is the opium of the masses".

[nigel]

Karl Marx
To the criticism of the Hegel philosophy of law. Introduction
Written at the end of of 1843 - January 1844


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"French-German yearbooks", Paris 1844

|378| For Germany the criticism of the religion is essentially finished, and the criticism of the religion is the condition of all criticism.

The everyday existence of the mistake is compromised, after its himmlische et oratio per aris focis |Prayer for altar and household|is disproved. Humans, who found the widerschein of its in the fantastic reality of the sky, where he looked for a superhuman, only, will not be any more bent, only the light of its to find only Unmen where it looks for its reality and search must.

The foundation of the irreligioesen criticism is: Humans make the religion , the religion make not humans. The religion is the self-confident its and the self feeling of humans, who acquired themselves either yet or did not lose already again. But humans , that are not an abstract nature squatting except the world. Humans, that are the world of humans , State of, partnership. This State of, this partnership produce the religion, a wrong world consciousness , because they are a wrong world. The religion is more mirror-image ritualistic the general theory of this world, its enzyklopaedisches manual, their logic in popular form, their POINT d'honneur|Point of honour|, their enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn addition, its general comfort and justification. It is the fantastic implementation of the human nature, because the human nature does not possess true reality. The fight against the religion is thus indirectly the fight against that world, whose mental flavour is the religion.

The religious misery is in one the expression real miserable and into the Protestation against the real misery. The religion is the sigh of the pressed creature, the mind of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the Opium of the people.

[goldfishbowl42]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')owever, I think Mr Marx would be offended to have been confused for Wilde and what he said was "Religion is the opium of the people."

[goldfishbowl42]

I did, I'm having a Brain Fade day.

I realise now, Marx said "Religion is the Opium of the People". not Wilde. Just ignore me in future. I appologise for wasting your time on this one.


Oh well, I think I'll give up and go home. Its been too long a day at work!!!

[Matrim]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ''')hey, i dont have to think anymore?? awesome deal!! i wonder if someone will start wiping my ass for me too??'

[Leanan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'ve also noticed that television and depression exist in a bit of a mutual feedback loop.