Jennifer Monique Sturgeon

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The TV Culture

• Jennifer Monique Sturgeon
• February 16, 2006
• Digital Culture

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Image OVER reality
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What happens to your brain?

• When you watch TV, brain activity switches from
  the left to the right hemisphere.
• The crossover from left to right releases a surge
  of the body's natural opiates endorphins, which
  include beta-endorphins and enkephalins.
• Activities that release endorphins (also called
  opioid peptides) are usually habit-forming (we
  rarely call them addictive). These include
  cracking knuckles, strenuous exercise, and orgasm

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Frightening Facts Social Conditioning

• "American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28
  hours per week viewing television, more than any
  other activity except sleeping. By the age of 70
  they will have spent 7 to 10 years of their lives
  watching TV."-- The Kaiser Family Foundation
• Yes, everybodys happy now, echoed Lenina.
  They had heard the words repeated a hundred and
  fifty times every night for twelve years.-
  (Brave New World)

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Mulholland experiment like hypnopaedia

• "The 'Mulholland' experiment in the early 70's
  wired ten kids toelectroencephalograph (EEG)
  machines (which measure brain wave activity)and
  sat them down in front of their chosen favourite
  programmes. Heexpected to see plenty of fast
  beta waves, which would indicate that theywere
  actively responding to something (as is produced
  when reading orduring conservation) instead all
  he could find were the slower alphawaves of the
  kind found when a person is in a coma or put in a
  trance where the subject is not interacting with
  the outside world at all."

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

• So, in a sense, T.V. is like soma and hypnopaedia
  combined!!!
• crappp

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ahh yes Delicious Soma, but now my head is gone!

• TV is owned to sell and like addictive drugs in
  general, this soma of our brave new world has a
  high price, namely our heads. Michael Ballard

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Carpe Diem! Seize the Day!

• when is the last time you seized the day after
  watching television?

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Excerpt from Tough enough for your Coffee cup

• Inside, from inside the cup come answers and
  truthsthought processes which confuse
• but then again, it can be blanked outchanneled
  from dust to beam to tv screen someone else's
  imagination and this is how they are paid
• subliminal messages and they are sayingwatch me
  watch me watch me watch me watch me watch me
  watch me watch me watch me watch me watch me
  watch me watch me watch me watch me watch me
• and then I say, watch me, for I am surely dying
• By Denyse Milliken

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A Poem about TV
and she wishes she had weddings to go to
rituals to executeceremonies to attendmagic to
perform, but its gray outsideand insidethe
televisionroars. no one hears her insights
anywayso she doesn't feel like it and who needs
a life? Fallacious cognitions spewed from
television do mold our decisions so stop and
take a look and youll see what I see now-
Incubus
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