MASS MEDIA BRAINWASHING 

1. Propaganda must always be essentially simple and repetitious. The most  brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one  fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly … it must confine itself to  a few points and repeat them over and over. – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi  Propaganda Minister
2. How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.  – Adolf Hitler
3. Take it from Goebbels and Hitler, true experts on mass-brainwashing. And  the U.S. government, particularly the CIA, has learned a great deal from the  Nazis. The Nazis in turn learned a great deal from American corporate 10 advertising techniques and the American mass-media. The American corporate mass-media is the world’s greatest practitioner of what its student  Goebbels preached: repeating simple-minded lies over and over for months  and years, until the lies take on a life of their own and all the American  sheeple repeat them unthinkingly as commonly accepted “facts”.
4. The fact is that mass media, especially through television, is a source of brainwashing. A researcher named Herbert Krugman, who later became  manager of public-opinion research at General Electric, decided to try to  discover what goes on physiologically in the brain of a person watching TV.  He chose a subject and taped an electrode to the back of her head which  was connected to a computer.
5. Krugman began monitoring the brain-waves of the subject. What he found  through repeated trials was that within about thirty seconds, the brain-waves  switched from predominantly beta waves, indicating alert and conscious  attention, to predominantly alpha waves, indicating an unfocused, receptive lack of attention: the state of aimless fantasy and daydreaming below the threshold of consciousness. When Krugman’s subject turned to reading  through a magazine, beta waves reappeared, indicating that conscious and  alert attentiveness had replaced the daydreaming state.
6. What surprised Krugman, who had set out to test the effect of TV-viewing  on the mind, was how rapidly the alpha-state emerged. Further research revealed that the brain’s left hemisphere, which processes information  logically and analytically, tunes out while the person is watching TV. This tuning-out allows the right hemisphere of the brain, which processes information emotionally and noncritically, to function unimpeded. It appears,  wrote Krugman, “that the mode of response to television is more or less constant and very different from the response to print. That is, the basic  electrical response of the brain is clearly related to the medium. Watching television encourages noncritical thinking while reading  encourages critical thinking.
7. The key phrase in Krugman’s findings was that TV transmits information not thought about at the time of exposure. Later, however, when we encounter  a real-life situation, a wealth of associations is triggered. A person’s recall of  this information is evoked by the person or product itself, interacting with the  stored data in their brain.
8. As real-life experience is increasingly replaced by the mediated “experience”, it becomes easy for politicians and market-researchers of all sorts to rely on  a base of mediated mass experience that can be evoked by appropriate  triggers. The TV “world” becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: the mass mind takes shape, its participants acting according to media-derived impulses and  believing them to be their own personal volition arising out of their own desires and needs. In such a situation, whoever controls the screen controls  the future, the past, and the present.
9. The following statistics and research come from a television show called “TV and its impact on society and our kids” hosted by Dennis McCuistion featuring  Sonja Ezell, a reading specialist and Hank Moore, a corporate strategist.
   • 60% of the American population and 50% of corporate America is  functionally illiterate
   • 2–5 year olds spend 32 hours watching TV 
   • 6–11 year olds spend 28 hours watching TV 
   • 68% of children have a TV in their bedrooms watching 1,5 hours more  TV than those who don't
   • 37% have cable access 
   • 4 year olds watching the daily average (3,5 hours) were 25% more likely  to become bullies
   • pre-schoolers who watch television violence, and play violent video  games show much higher levels of aggression and antisocial behaviour  than those not exposed.
   • a study of more than 700 families found that 14-year-old boys who  watched relatively more television were more likely to have assaulted  someone or committed a serious act of aggression by the time they were 22 years old.
   • there is a direct correlation between a child's weight and the number of  hours the child spends watching television. 
   • the number of sexual incidents that occur during prime time (7–9) has  increased fourfold during the last 20 years.
   • nearly three out of four 15–17 year olds (72%) believe that sexual  content on TV influences the behaviour of kids their age. 

[Adapted from nstarzone.com and frtv.org]  

SIMPLE WAYS TO KEEP A HAPPY, HEALTHY MIND 

1. We all know that what we eat has a big impact on our physical wellbeing,  but it also affects your mental happiness. As the old saying goes: a  healthy body makes a healthy mind, so think about your diet and what  foods you maybe eat too much of.
2. Doing a little exercise every day has many different benefits; both mental 5 and physical. When you exercise your body releases endorphins which  can greatly improve your mood. You don’t have to spend a lot of money  and join a gym to get some exercise; walking or cycling to your destination  instead of driving, cleaning the house while listening to music and  gardening are all easy ways to get the blood pumping. 10
3. Many mental health problems have their roots in trouble with  communication and can be helped or even prevented by keeping in touch  with others and maintaining strong relationships. If you are having  difficulties then some of the best help can be given by friends or family, so  talk to them. 15
4. So much of our lives are taken up by the pressures of work these days  that we can sometimes forget about what we enjoy. Taking some time out  to dedicate just to yourself will help you cope with stress, focus your mind  and allow you to express yourself.
5. Many people are unhappy or self-conscious about their appearance, the way 20 they speak or their background; comparing themselves unfairly to others they see in magazines or on television. Take five minutes every day to list the  qualities that make you unique, thinking of one positive and then one negative,  and try to accept that you are you; which is the best person you can be.
6. Part of maintaining healthy relationships is returning concern for those who 25 care for you. Really caring for others can help greatly improve your mental  health and allow you to explore feelings you may have grown out of touch with.  Allowing yourself to have feelings for others helps you understand why other  people care for you and why you should care for yourself.
7. Just like the rest of your body your brain needs exercise too in order to stay 30 healthy. There are lots of different ways you can do this; from computer games  to doing the cross word. Your mind is your most valuable tool so keeping it  fully functioning is very important to staying happy and living an active life.

[Adapted from mentalhealth-jami.org.uk] 

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1. The blocks of programming that are universally accepted parallel the shift to  craft our entire lives towards the factory's bell and the allusion of time. This is  the creation of the hive mind. The hive mind is the result of massive  brainwashing to the general public. Everyone shares the same thoughts,  goals, knowledge and understanding. A hive mind society gears themselves 5 towards conformity and ignores diversity while masqueraded as the road to utopia in mainstream television.
2. Network programming, weather it’s the news or drama, is geared towards  artificially creating your world and reality. With the proper (number/amount) of  entertainment and sensationalism, we may even be living our lives through 10 the television set. 
3. Today the media represents a tool of brainwashing and indoctrination that is  utilised on behalf of the owners interests. The media drums to the heartbeat  of these owners, whose interests are not of the general public. Instead they are interested in their other financial endeavours like defence contracting, oil 15 business, political parties, prison industry.
4. Once we come to the conclusion that the media is intentionally deceiving us,  we can apply the principles of problem-reaction-solution. 

[Adapted from rense.com]