Do you watch broadcast television?

[Nielsio]

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Right now there is an entire generation that didn't know anything that didn't come out of this tube. Television is not the truth. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troop of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, [..], and footballplayers. [..] you're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal, you do whatever the tube tells you, you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube.
-Network (1976)

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The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
-The Matrix (1999)

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Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.
-The Matrix (1999)

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[plzleenowhammy]

network

[tame_deuces]

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network

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Nice clip. Though there is certainly some paradoxal irony in this. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[plzleenowhammy]

i actually meant to link this one

[tame_deuces]

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i actually meant to link this one

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Also a great one. But I still think there is some quite hilarious paradoxes going on here, hehehe. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[plzleenowhammy]

inform me on the paradoxes pls?

[tame_deuces]

A fictional moviescene about how television can corrupt, blaming people for sitting in their livingroom only watching problems on television. Whether one agrees with the message or not, that's somewhat delightfully ironic. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Nielsio]

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A fictional moviescene about how television can corrupt, blaming people for sitting in their livingroom only watching problems on television. Whether one agrees with the message or not, that's somewhat delightfully ironic. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Whenever something teaches how itself can be corrupt, that's a good thing, no?

[tame_deuces]

As a general principle I'd have to agree on that yes.

But anything can be bad and often is. Look how pseudoscience lacking peer review is creeping all over the net. Books/papers/pamphlets have been used to spread abhorrent political doctrines etc. No matter the medium, being aware and having a critical mind is always key.

[Mempho]

I really don't get it. Everyone believes that we are purposefully being dumbed down. If everything is a lie, then why is the Christian version unbelievable?