BabyFirstTV

[Sepka]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=635831ed-f921-46b8-9c85-f4d24737fd81&k=45471">www.canada.com/topics/new...81&k=45471</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>TV offerings already abound for older toddlers, and a lucrative — though controversial — market has developed for baby-oriented videos, attracting the Walt Disney Co. and the makers of Sesame Street, among others. But until now there had been no ongoing TV programming aimed at infants.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>-Sepka the Space Weasel<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[HMKGrey]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>But until now there had been no ongoing TV programming aimed at infants.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>What about Fox News? <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

If the patients are going off their meds, put them on meds sooner.<br><br>Iconophilia. Obsession with images. And the active ingredient in scientific fascism. <p></p><i></i>

[TroubleFunk]

So glad to see your name again, Hugh! RI's been missing you here. <p></p><i></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.holology.com/narcotics.html">www.holology.com/narcotics.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Kultur-Terror and <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The three major cultural narcotics of choice today are:<br><br> *<br><br> Religion<br> *<br><br> Television<br> *<br><br> Money <br><br>>snip<<br><br>American culture is both virulently addictive and also extremely profitable to the pushers and producers - the multi-billion dollar industry of Hollywood is legendary. And if that wasn't bad enough new markets and new 'demographics', especially in foreign countries, are opening all the time and being polluted just as quickly. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Through the drastic effects of television alone native cultures proudly dating back millennia are quickly being driven to self-extinction by the disassociate, willpower-sapping forces of mindless sitcoms and trashy movies. Indeed from a historical perspective TV is far more deadly to native peoples than the combined onslaught of smallpox, alcohol and Christianity against native Americans 200 years ago</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.holology.com/kultur_terror.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Related from the same interesting website, here's an ethos that TV seems to me to be using to indoctrinate Americans with a baseline of 'Dirty Harry' militarism to ward off recurrence of Vietnam Syndrome or post-WWI isolationism-<br><br> <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Choice Excerpts from the 24 'Marine gunfight rules'<br><br> *<br><br> Rule number 1: "Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns."<br> *<br><br> 2. "Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive."<br> *<br><br> 10. "Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty."<br> *<br><br> 11. "Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose."<br> *<br><br> 21 and 22: "Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one." <br><br>Source: Gertz and Scarborough, Washington Times, February 7, 2003.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Start watching TV as an infant and you're on your way to a Green Beret!<br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.holology.com/images/perceptions.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 5/13/06 1:29 pm<br></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Hey, thanks, TF. The world-wide world has been competing with the web for my attention. Pesky third dimension, ya know?<br><br>But TV for babies?!? grrrr... "This-will-not-stand!" <p></p><i></i>

[Pirx]

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[Sepka]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Through the drastic effects of television alone native cultures proudly dating back millennia are quickly being driven to self-extinction<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>A culture is no more than a collection of attitudes and memes to allow its members to cope with the world. The world includes other cultures. If a culture collapses from exposure to the memes and ideas of a different culture, then it wasn't a good method of coping with the world anyway.<br><br>-Sepka the Space Weasel<br><br>(editted for spelling) <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=sepka>Sepka</A> at: 5/13/06 2:14 pm<br></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>If a culture collapses from exposure to the memes and ideas of a different culture, then it wasn't a good method of coping with the world anyway.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I think I get your drift intellectually but in practice this plays out as social Darwinism. Social ties and human psyches are fragile things, like eco-systems. Destruction is much easier than construction and capitalist barbarians consider this their mandate to get away with what they can against the vulnerable.<br><br>Knocking down a wood house isn't helpful just because it "should have been brick." Or else Israeli bulldozer drivers would be known as Palestinian home security consultants. <p></p><i></i>