Do you ever wonder about stuff like this?
Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, owever, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit. It's no longer an overstatement to note that the youth today that are raised and taught through network television are intellectually dead by their early teens.
From:
Mass Mind Control Through Network Television: Are Your Thoughts Your Own? by Alex Ansari, InformationLiberation.com, Apr 21, 2008
A few months ago I was out in a No village. That village has had electricity for over 10 years now. and more and more electrical gadgets are appearing all the time -- TVs, radios, stereos, small refrigerators, irons, cake mixers, etc. I was staying at a house without a TV but they did have a computer which is sometimes used for watching CD movies. Somebody acquired a CD advertising some health supplement with video promos in half a dozen languages. So the people in the household decid
ed to watch it. It was astonishing to me to see the whole group sitting in front of that computer screen mesmerized by some promo in languages they did not understand. I tried talking to them – they were like zombies, barely able to acknowledge my presence, having to make tremendous efforts to pull their eyes away from two suited guys sitting in a studio jabbering in Korean. Hardly an action flick! Every one of them was like that from the three year old to the elderly visiting auntie. Busy absorbing all those endorphans, I guess. A very sobering illustration of the quote above.
ed to watch it. It was astonishing to me to see the whole group sitting in front of that computer screen mesmerized by some promo in languages they did not understand. I tried talking to them – they were like zombies, barely able to acknowledge my presence, having to make tremendous efforts to pull their eyes away from two suited guys sitting in a studio jabbering in Korean. Hardly an action flick! Every one of them was like that from the three year old to the elderly visiting auntie. Busy absorbing all those endorphans, I guess. A very sobering illustration of the quote above.
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