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Read those banned books!
Just when we are about to think of a TV-turning off campaign, we read of books being banned. This is a rude awakening for a nation in dire need of long reflective moments.
On TV and print media, just when we are about to think of how farmers can sustain themselves through traditional means, we came up with a national bio-technology policy, without having a debate on the nature of the Frankenstein in us.
We need skills of reading TV. Reading and watching TV is like the difference between the Athenian teacher named Socrates and the American tele-product called Seinfeld. One is a philosopher of everything; one is a philosophy of nothing.
We need to start reading Socrates instead of attempting to imitate Seinfeld.
People worship artistes more than scholars. People want to know more about actors more than trying to understand what acts they are performing in life. If watching these artistes on TV is not enough, people read tabloid magazines to find out what these artistes are doing.
Whoever invented the word ‘star’ to describe these human creations of the media must be credited for inventing a sophisticated language of mental colonization.
On TV and print media, just when we are about to think of how farmers can sustain themselves through traditional means, we came up with a national bio-technology policy, without having a debate on the nature of the Frankenstein in us.
We need skills of reading TV. Reading and watching TV is like the difference between the Athenian teacher named Socrates and the American tele-product called Seinfeld. One is a philosopher of everything; one is a philosophy of nothing.
We need to start reading Socrates instead of attempting to imitate Seinfeld.
People worship artistes more than scholars. People want to know more about actors more than trying to understand what acts they are performing in life. If watching these artistes on TV is not enough, people read tabloid magazines to find out what these artistes are doing.
Whoever invented the word ‘star’ to describe these human creations of the media must be credited for inventing a sophisticated language of mental colonization.
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