Tv is used to program your subconscious mind, ideas are embedded till they become customary & you accept them as being your own.
Are your thoughts really your own?
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Several years ago an article was published by Scientific American titled "Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor. It basically states that TV viewing is addictive, and people who watch excessive amounts of TV (as most American's currently do--our national average is 4+ hours per day) exhibit the same behaviors as those addicted to physical substances, gambling, sex, etc. Indeed the shift from left- to right-brain dominance that television viewers undergo releases endorphins into the nervous system. More interesting to me in that article was the mention of a 1986 study done by Byron Reeves of Stanford University, Esther Thorson of the University of Missouri and their colleagues that looks into the brain-wave patterns of people before, during, and after television viewing. I also found talk about a study done by Herbert Krugman, a psychologist and manager of public-opinion research at GE (owner of NBC) which monitored human brain waves to discover what the effects were when watching television.
Here's another a quote from another interesting article entitled "The Nature of Television," which speaks of the effect of the endorphins released into the nervous system by TV viewing.
"These opiates are structurally identical to heroin and opium and just like the drugs themselves, endorphins are habit forming and addictive. Krugman observed that whilst watching television, right brain activity is at least twice as potent as left brain activity. As with many other scientists, psychophisiologist, Dr. Thomas Mulholland, arrived at the same conclusions, notably that alpha waves appear just after thirty seconds of television viewing and that whilst watching television the viewer's brain falls into a virtual trance."
Seems that television viewing moves the brain from a beta-wave state, where it is active in cognitive processing, deep into the alpha-wave state where it is passive, free-associating, no cognitive activity to speak of. Basically, what this tells us is that during television viewing, your cognitive mind is more-or-less turned off and you have no process of rational judgment or filters between what you are seeing and hearing on the TV and what enters your subconscious mind.
Here's another quote from "The Nature of Television": "all relevant research points to the fact that whilst watching television the brain is in a similar state as when under hypnosis."
http://truthaddictsanon.blogspot.co.uk/2006/12/what-television-is-doing-to-you.html?m=1
Here's another a quote from another interesting article entitled "The Nature of Television," which speaks of the effect of the endorphins released into the nervous system by TV viewing.
"These opiates are structurally identical to heroin and opium and just like the drugs themselves, endorphins are habit forming and addictive. Krugman observed that whilst watching television, right brain activity is at least twice as potent as left brain activity. As with many other scientists, psychophisiologist, Dr. Thomas Mulholland, arrived at the same conclusions, notably that alpha waves appear just after thirty seconds of television viewing and that whilst watching television the viewer's brain falls into a virtual trance."
Seems that television viewing moves the brain from a beta-wave state, where it is active in cognitive processing, deep into the alpha-wave state where it is passive, free-associating, no cognitive activity to speak of. Basically, what this tells us is that during television viewing, your cognitive mind is more-or-less turned off and you have no process of rational judgment or filters between what you are seeing and hearing on the TV and what enters your subconscious mind.
Here's another quote from "The Nature of Television": "all relevant research points to the fact that whilst watching television the brain is in a similar state as when under hypnosis."
http://truthaddictsanon.blogspot.co.uk/2006/12/what-television-is-doing-to-you.html?m=1
The Engineering of Consent Bv EDWARD L. BERNAYS
FREEDOM of speech and its demo- cratic corollary, a free press, have tacitly expanded our Bill of Rights to include the right of persuasion. This development was an inevitable result of the expansion of the media of free speech and persuasion, denned in other articles in this volume. All these media provide open doors to the public mind. Any one of us through these media may influence the attitudes and actions of our fellow citizens.
The tremendous expansion of com- munications in the United States has given this Nation the world's most pene- trating and effective apparatus for the transmission of ideas. Every resident is constantly exposed to the impact of our vast network of communications which reach every corner of the coun- try, no matter how remote or isolated. Words hammer continually at the eyes and ears of America. The United States has become a small room in which a single whisper is magnified thousands of times.
Knowledge of how to use this enor- mous amplifying system becomes a matter of primary concern to those who are interested in socially constructive action.
There are two main divisions of this communications system which maintain social cohesion. On the first level there are the commercial media. Almost 1,800 daily newspapers in the United States have a combined circulation of around 44,000,000. There are approximately 10,000 weekly newspapers and almost 6,000 magazines. Approximately 2,000
pamphlets is published annually. The country is blanketed with billboards, handbills, throwaways, and direct mail advertising. Round tables, panels and forums, classrooms and legislative as- semblies, and public platforms—any and all media, day after day, spread the word, someone's word.
On the second level there are the spe- cialized media owned and operated by the many organized groups in this coun- try. Almost all such groups (and many of their subdivisions) have their own communications systems. They dis- seminate ideas not only by means of the formal written word in labor papers, house organs, special bulletins, and the like, but also through lectures, meetings, discussions, and rank-and-file conversa- tions.
LEADERSHIP THROUGH COMMUNICATION
This web of communications, some- times duplicating, crisscrossing, and overlapping, is a condition of fact, not theory. We must recognize the sig- nificance of modern communications not only as a highly organized mechanical web but as a potent force for social good or possible evil. We can deter- mine whether this network shall be em- ployed to its greatest extent for sound social ends.
For only by mastering the techniques of communication can leadership be exercised fruitfully in the vast complex that is modern democracy in the United States. In an earlier age, in a soci- ety that was small geographically and with a more homogeneous population, a leader was usually known to his fol- lowers personally; there was a visual relationship between them.
http://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall07/28/Engineering_of_consent.pdf
FREEDOM of speech and its demo- cratic corollary, a free press, have tacitly expanded our Bill of Rights to include the right of persuasion. This development was an inevitable result of the expansion of the media of free speech and persuasion, denned in other articles in this volume. All these media provide open doors to the public mind. Any one of us through these media may influence the attitudes and actions of our fellow citizens.
The tremendous expansion of com- munications in the United States has given this Nation the world's most pene- trating and effective apparatus for the transmission of ideas. Every resident is constantly exposed to the impact of our vast network of communications which reach every corner of the coun- try, no matter how remote or isolated. Words hammer continually at the eyes and ears of America. The United States has become a small room in which a single whisper is magnified thousands of times.
Knowledge of how to use this enor- mous amplifying system becomes a matter of primary concern to those who are interested in socially constructive action.
There are two main divisions of this communications system which maintain social cohesion. On the first level there are the commercial media. Almost 1,800 daily newspapers in the United States have a combined circulation of around 44,000,000. There are approximately 10,000 weekly newspapers and almost 6,000 magazines. Approximately 2,000
pamphlets is published annually. The country is blanketed with billboards, handbills, throwaways, and direct mail advertising. Round tables, panels and forums, classrooms and legislative as- semblies, and public platforms—any and all media, day after day, spread the word, someone's word.
On the second level there are the spe- cialized media owned and operated by the many organized groups in this coun- try. Almost all such groups (and many of their subdivisions) have their own communications systems. They dis- seminate ideas not only by means of the formal written word in labor papers, house organs, special bulletins, and the like, but also through lectures, meetings, discussions, and rank-and-file conversa- tions.
LEADERSHIP THROUGH COMMUNICATION
This web of communications, some- times duplicating, crisscrossing, and overlapping, is a condition of fact, not theory. We must recognize the sig- nificance of modern communications not only as a highly organized mechanical web but as a potent force for social good or possible evil. We can deter- mine whether this network shall be em- ployed to its greatest extent for sound social ends.
For only by mastering the techniques of communication can leadership be exercised fruitfully in the vast complex that is modern democracy in the United States. In an earlier age, in a soci- ety that was small geographically and with a more homogeneous population, a leader was usually known to his fol- lowers personally; there was a visual relationship between them.
http://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Fall07/28/Engineering_of_consent.pdf
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know"
- Aldous Huxley
"This utterly fascinating archive of a 1958 Mike Wallace Interview with Aldous Huxley is more revealing about our current state of affairs in the U.S.A. than ever before.
Huxley had just written Enemies of Freedom and it became the focus of the discussion. Wallace and Huxley discussed such topics as overpopulation, the growing impersonalization of human affairs, propaganda, mind-controlling drugs, and various prescriptions for these problems.
In this video Huxley makes some very astute observations that are still very pertinent today, affirming him as a very capable futurologist and one of the great minds of the 20th Century.
This was taped at the height of the Cold War, when it wasn't at all clear as to whether the United States or Soviet Union would win the battle of minds. Huxley was making the case that freedom was in peril and that there were two primary forces working against the United States at the time: accelerating impersonalization and technological advancements.
In particular, he saw overpopulation as a disaster in waiting. Huxley argued that growing populations would place undue pressure on existing resources, which would in turn force central governments to exert more control. It would also lead to increased social unrest -- something Huxley believed would play into the hands of totalitarian regimes.
Sound like today? Yipes...
Huxley also warned about what he called 'over-organization.' As technology becomes more complicated, he said, it becomes necessary to have more elaborate organizations, particularly hierarchical organizations. The science of organization has progressed accordingly, said Huxley, allowing for organization on a scale never before possible; more and more people are living as subordinates under the thumb of massive bureaucracies.
He was also worried about the powers of propaganda and the innovative ways regimes had become able to deliver their messages. Hitler, for example, used every modern device made available to him, enabling him to impose his will on an immense mass of educated people: "We musn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology. This has happened again and again in history...Technology advances and changes social conditions -- and suddenly people have found themselves in a situation which they didn't foresee and doing all sorts of things they really didn't want to do."
Looking at the situation in 1958, Huxley commented that "Television is [currently] being used too much to distract people all the time." This remark led quite naturally to a discussion of Soma, a drug he featured in his famous book, Brave New World. Huxley predicted that drugs would be introduced that could change our mental states but won't do us any harm -- they would be "mind changing" drugs.
Dictatorships of the future, said Huxley, could "bypass the rational side of man and even his physiology, and actually make him love his slavery," making them "happy in a situation where they oughtn't to be happy."
http://circleof13.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/aldous-huxley-on-enemies-of-freedom.html?m=1
- Aldous Huxley
"This utterly fascinating archive of a 1958 Mike Wallace Interview with Aldous Huxley is more revealing about our current state of affairs in the U.S.A. than ever before.
Huxley had just written Enemies of Freedom and it became the focus of the discussion. Wallace and Huxley discussed such topics as overpopulation, the growing impersonalization of human affairs, propaganda, mind-controlling drugs, and various prescriptions for these problems.
In this video Huxley makes some very astute observations that are still very pertinent today, affirming him as a very capable futurologist and one of the great minds of the 20th Century.
This was taped at the height of the Cold War, when it wasn't at all clear as to whether the United States or Soviet Union would win the battle of minds. Huxley was making the case that freedom was in peril and that there were two primary forces working against the United States at the time: accelerating impersonalization and technological advancements.
In particular, he saw overpopulation as a disaster in waiting. Huxley argued that growing populations would place undue pressure on existing resources, which would in turn force central governments to exert more control. It would also lead to increased social unrest -- something Huxley believed would play into the hands of totalitarian regimes.
Sound like today? Yipes...
Huxley also warned about what he called 'over-organization.' As technology becomes more complicated, he said, it becomes necessary to have more elaborate organizations, particularly hierarchical organizations. The science of organization has progressed accordingly, said Huxley, allowing for organization on a scale never before possible; more and more people are living as subordinates under the thumb of massive bureaucracies.
He was also worried about the powers of propaganda and the innovative ways regimes had become able to deliver their messages. Hitler, for example, used every modern device made available to him, enabling him to impose his will on an immense mass of educated people: "We musn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology. This has happened again and again in history...Technology advances and changes social conditions -- and suddenly people have found themselves in a situation which they didn't foresee and doing all sorts of things they really didn't want to do."
Looking at the situation in 1958, Huxley commented that "Television is [currently] being used too much to distract people all the time." This remark led quite naturally to a discussion of Soma, a drug he featured in his famous book, Brave New World. Huxley predicted that drugs would be introduced that could change our mental states but won't do us any harm -- they would be "mind changing" drugs.
Dictatorships of the future, said Huxley, could "bypass the rational side of man and even his physiology, and actually make him love his slavery," making them "happy in a situation where they oughtn't to be happy."
http://circleof13.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/aldous-huxley-on-enemies-of-freedom.html?m=1
Understanding the human mind is at the core of psychoanalytic theory. Since the introduction of the theory of Sigmund Freud in the early 1900’s and despite the many advancements in the study of psychoanalytic theory Freud’s basic thoughts retain a strong hold on the shaping of views regarding the theory of the human mind.
At the center of Freud’s theory are psychopathologies that result in a mental illness within a subject. It is Freud’s premise that within the human mind is contained in three levels of awareness or consciousness. It is the introduction of these psychopathologies that affect people, thus requiring more than simply talking about them. The effective treatment of these deep seated psychopathologies is psychoanalysis.
In the illustration below is Freud’s division of these three levels and the estimated usage of each level. They are the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. Working together they create our reality.
Although acceptance of Freud’s psychoanalytical theory has ebbed and flowed over time few professionals would suggest dismissing it. Within it is a model or concept that has withstood the many tests of time.
http://journalpsyche.org/understanding-the-human-mind/
At the center of Freud’s theory are psychopathologies that result in a mental illness within a subject. It is Freud’s premise that within the human mind is contained in three levels of awareness or consciousness. It is the introduction of these psychopathologies that affect people, thus requiring more than simply talking about them. The effective treatment of these deep seated psychopathologies is psychoanalysis.
In the illustration below is Freud’s division of these three levels and the estimated usage of each level. They are the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious. Working together they create our reality.
Although acceptance of Freud’s psychoanalytical theory has ebbed and flowed over time few professionals would suggest dismissing it. Within it is a model or concept that has withstood the many tests of time.
http://journalpsyche.org/understanding-the-human-mind/
@dhegdheer come to dada b let me enlighten you & open up your pineal gland 
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know"
- Aldous Huxley
That doesn't answer my question. So your thoughts stolen or nah??
I'm I obliged to answer your question?
Nacaala iyo waxa tahay ba waas qumayo waxid vafankoolo warankilo
Read it & move on beerka caaro nii goosay don't come with your bakhti mofo nigga ain't got no patience for all that shuuban talk 
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