The Great Mesmerizer

November 22, 2024

So does TV watching create inner space? Does it cause you to be present?… [No.] When you are watching television, the tendency is for you to fall below thought, not rise above it…Frequent and prolonged TV watching not only makes you unconscious, it also induces passivity and drains you of energy. ~ Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

Awake and aware people sometimes use the term Trump Derangement Syndrome to describe those with a pathological aversion to President Trump, apparently based on how he’s presented by their media choices such as CNN. 

I think the problem is deeper and wider than delusion about Trump and what he and his administration really stand for. A more accurate description might be “mainstream media derangement syndrome.” 

The MSM distorts many narratives. Think of how they donned the cloak of science regarding Covid, and pushed everyone to get the “safe and effective” vaccines. The MSM is still presenting the Ukraine–Russia conflict using what I think are questionable facts.

And now, otherwise rational people are frothing at the mouth because they think Trump is going to ruin…I’m not sure what they think he’s going to ruin—the destructive transgender narrative? War belligerence?… at any rate, they’ve been convinced by MSM that Trump is “bad” and his presidency will “hurt” them.

Perhaps that’s changing to some degree. But until news sources present information in genuine journalistic style (balanced reporting, multi-viewpoint, factual), people immersed in legacy mainstream news will cling to that safe harbor. The safe harbor is what has to change, because people are unlikely to turn off CNN and head over to Tucker Carlson. CNN et al. have to start consistently telling the truth to viewers. 

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This was brought home to me when I overheard a woman proudly telling a fellow shopper at Trader Joe’s that she gets booster vaccinations every six months. “But who knows what’s going to happen now, with that nut coming in…”.

I wasn’t sure if by “that nut” she meant Trump, or RFK Jr. Probably the latter. There was zero point in engaging with this woman. Without even doing Johnny Carson’s Carnac mindreader trick, I could envision what’s on her Internet feeds and TV set. CNN, NYT, MSNBC… Until those sources drop their thinly disguised antihuman, pro-war, anti-American biases, that woman and others like her will continue to run their lives and make health decisions according to what the great MSM mesmerizer tells them.

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I remember hearing the television referred to as the boob tube many decades ago. I feel like I dodged a bullet by becoming addicted to reading rather than TV. 

I believe the day is coming, before too long, when the optical and frequency-related tricks used to ensnare viewers are widely exposed and deactivated. By that point, it might not matter as much, because the great deceiving media mouthpieces won’t be speaking anymore. When a person turns on a news program—if such a thing even survives—they will be assured that what’s presented is as factual as humanly (or higher dimensionally?) possible, and intended to inform, not manipulate them. 

The era of the boob tube is over. Long live the truth tube.