Television Is a Hypnotic State

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Scientists have known for decades that television watching activates alpha waves in the brain, thus placing the individual in a hypnotic like a trance. The typical television watchers transformed into an opinionated robot. His or her evaluations of the world are mindless regurgitations of whatever has been absorbed from the TV. No longer does man think in personal values, following his own conscience and ethical evaluations. He thinks more and more in the values brought to him by mass media. Television keeps him in continual awe and passive fixation.

In his 1958 book Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley wrote the following: “If the first half of the twentieth century was the era of the technical engineers, the second half may well be the era of the social engineers — and the twenty-first century, I suppose, will be the era of World Controllers, the scientific […]

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