It’s funny… There’s an article in the NYTimes today that talks about TV and the clip for the article reads, “Networks still pull in the biggest audiences, but they are losing the cultural and the financial battle to cable.” I think it’s amazing that as America, we have to redefine ourselves outside the mainstream, that as a country, free and all, we don’t chose to face the change required of a culture on the front pages and in our favorite television shows.
No, we need to expand our networks to cover-up the widely diversifying groups instead of keeping up with the constant changes inherent in any cultural system. We need cable in order to try and find anything that even remotely reflects us as a nation of people. So, there it is. It isn’t anything new. I was in fact born during the 60’s and saw the 70’s, the violence against its own people, to deny the basic rights in the Constitution that made this country seem so unique (assembly).
This kind of behavior as a culture, magnified by corporate dollar driven media, has been planned out since the turn of the 20th century. Shortly after WWI, the newly developed factories, that fueled the war, and the men who owned them started using a latent form of propaganda to create “want” driven consumers, when previously this country was driven by the basic needs we all share as human beings.
Over the next 90 years there has been a silent war in the hearts of this culture. We can see that the division between agreeing with this type of hypothetical control, and making our own choices is widening. The mainstream media is one one end of the spectrum, while the other is playing in underground clubs and talking about the planetary shift we are feeling.
Someone once said that the revolution would not be televised and I couldn’t agree with him more. As long as companies like General Electric, and Warner Brothers are projecting our lifestyles, it’s never going to amount to anything more than fiction at best. It will be kept a total secret if it can in any way undermine the current status quo. It will be homogenized watered down, cold filtered, artisan bullshit, aimed soley at your pocket books, in order to keep everyone spending. Because… Happy people don’t lead revolutions against power-hungry tyrants, which alleviates me…
But, I’m happy for different reasons. I love digging through the landscape of our culture to find those nook sub-cultures that are inherently filled with conscious people enjoying the simple act of gathering. We come together, not to share new ideas, but to live them with each other. To me, this whole crisis is a blessing, cause when people aren’t working they are available to be present and will naturally seek out others who are of the same state.

