This Is How They Are Dummying Us Down
By Junious Ricardo Stanton

"Researchers have now seized on these facts to ask if T.V. is far from being the great educator everyone is told. In fact, it is now seen as being a quite unsuitable learning tool for our children. The idea is scarcely new. Ten years ago, the "Journal of Advertising Research" compared the brain activity of reading a newspaper with the brain activity while watching T.V.

Conclusions: The brain response was totally different... the response to print was described as active, while the response to television was described as passive. Researchers at the National University of Canberra found that the longer you sit in front of a screen, the slower the brainwave activity.

The Canberra researchers found that the left-brain "sort of went to sleep" once TV was switched on but the right brain was busy "storing information in its memory bank". This is not conscious learning as we know it, a bit like sleep learning in education where students imbibe tapes as they sleep.

Think again of the many violent images / questionable moral values that our children may be unconsciously storing… even from what we view as 'harmless viewing', the Hollywoodish type values that a young child gets to intake through the watching of a video? They simply do not process the information as we do." - Research on the Effects of Television Hilary Jackson from Labor of Love The Web magazine for Conscious Parenting

Looking at the state of AmeriKKKan culture we are witnessing alarming tends that do not bode well of us now or into the future. AmeriKKKans are more obese and getting fatter at an earlier age which will lead to adverse societal health complications.

As a society we seem not to be able to fully process what is going on around us and act upon what we know to be true, like the incessant lies we are being feed about the invasion and occupation of Iraq or the need to privatize Social Security. We seem to be losing our will to stand up for ourselves.

We are passive victims of a nefarious program of conditioning and propaganda that is eroding our mental faculties, suppressing our imagination as we are being dummied down and put into a stupor by the corporate media mind control apparatus. Numerous research over the past few decades has proven the deleterious effects of television viewing.

Of course, the conglomerates that own and operate the television industry are not going to tell us watching television is harmful to us! That would be too much like right! Nevertheless, studies have demonstrated the negative effects of television.

Television as a medium has the following negative impact on children: obesity- children are watching more and more television cutting down on physical activities and are snacking more on non nutritious junk food while they watch TV, sleep depravation- children stay up late watching televisions in their rooms and are too tired to concentrate in school or lead active lives, stifles imagination- passively watching television programmed by adults limits the child's ability to readily form images and scenes in their own minds and creates an addiction like dependency on media for stimulation, retards social development- excessive television watching limits a child's self image and his or her ability to interact with peers and others:

Television numbs the brain- the flickering screen creates a trance state that numbs the critical faculties of the brain (left hemisphere) and activates the part of the brain where meditation and sleep are predominant (right hemisphere) this in itself would not be harmful (music, dance, ritual and trance are how indigenous societies reinforce their cultural values) were it not for the negative images and content being programmed into our brains (gratuitous violence, indiscriminate sex, incivility and immorality) as we watch.

Finally (for this installment), television stifles critical thinking- since the left hemisphere is being by-passed and the right hemisphere is being programmed, children's and adults' sense of reality and the world are being cunningly manipulated.

These are just a few of the negative effects television has on children and adults. Of course, there are others such as the unscrupulous manipulation by advertisers, which is the prime motivation for television programming (they don't call it programming as in brainwashing for nothing).

There is also our addition to watching television; so much so, we plan our activities around our favorite programs!? We cannot discount the effects of sensory overload, the countless images of murder, the negative news and "reality shows" that promote ruthlessness and predation. Add to this the massive doses of subtle and overt government/corporate propaganda and disinformation and you can see why lethargy and mindlessness runs rampant in our society.

We are being programmed for passivity, compliance and self-destruction. Remember the two largest industries in AmeriKKKa advertising and media, promote white supremacy, lies and disinformation. The conflagration of television's trance component and negative content are dummying us down!

Studies reveal even watching television together as a family or so called children's programs on PBS don't counter the long term effects of physical inactivity or the negative psychological and physiological responses to programming we are exposing ourselves to. The only real solution is to limit the amount of television (videos and video games) we and our children watch.

© 2005 By Afromerica

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