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Boob Tube: The Outer Limits of Empire. Scandal is in, Strategy is out!
Global Research, May 05, 2019
Baby Boomers should remember that innovative Sci Fi television series, The Outer Limits
(1963). The opening monologue really was a rare look into the future…
OUR future here in Military Industrial Empire’s America. Remember the
opening:
Control Voice:
[introduction] There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not
attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we
wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make
it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal.
We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter.
We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal
clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly, and we will control all that
you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television
set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about
to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to…
The Outer Limits!
Well, that was 56
years ago, and look at the boob tube now. They say in all the civics
classes that We the People own the airwaves. Yeah right! It is those who
run this empire who control our media, and not us. You channel surf
through ALL the so called news and news talk shows, and all you get is
****!
The Two Party/One Party food fight centers lately on the ominous Mueller Report , all day and all night!
In between that
nonsense the Democratic Party leaning networks focus on how terrible
(and he is) Trump is behaving, but not on the real issues that we
working stiffs should be concerned about. No, they spend time, after
many commercial breaks, on sexual scandals and other low brow things,
while this straw man is allowing the Military Industrial Empire to
bankrupt us!
On the right wing pro
Republican networks they focus on how great our economy is, despite the
fact that too many working stiffs need to work second ( even third)
jobs to stay afloat. Both sides seem to wish Julian Assange should be
jailed for life… if not executed along with Ms. Manning and of course
Eric Snowden… who had the foresight to get the hell out of Dodge before
they got him. Both sides also want to satisfy the empire’s movers and
shakers by seeing regime change in Venezuela, ignoring the fact that
Maduro was legally elected and re-elected by his people. And
through it all our cherished media servants make sure to genuflect at
the altar of this massive beast called the Pentagon.
I used to love
watching sports talk shows. No more. On any of the multitude of such
shows all you get is hype and spin for either the NBA or the NFL. You
have millionaire commentators, many ex jocks, who carry the water for
their masters, the uber rich, who own those sports and the networks… and
of course the corporations who advertise on them.
Scandal is in and strategy is out!
Ever try to watch a live sporting event? In the old days of my baby
boomer youth a NFL game was maybe 2.5 to 3 hours long. Now, they are at
least close to 4 hours. So, a smart fan tapes the game and watches it on
delay to avoid those incessant commercials. Major league baseball games
used to also be 2.5 to 3 hours long… now they too are close to or even
over 4 hours.
I won’t even delve too
much into the financial aspect of pro sports, with the mega millionaire
players who spend too much time being on injured reserve, or the
millionaire players who can’t even hit with a .250 average. Well, look
at how much their team’s owners are raking in: Billions in some cases!
And the media , like the Outer Limits monologue says, controls
everything and makes mega billions on these sports. Meanwhile, any
working stiff who dares to fork out a couple of hundred bucks to take
his kid to a game is a jackass! Bad enough what we have to all pay for
cable television when the 1996 Telecommunications (under so called
‘progressive’ President Clinton) opened the door for massive fee
increases! The rest of the world may yet be ahead of us as many of their
pro soccer leagues have the players wearing sponsor’s ads on their backs.
What I love is the two
year cycle of preparation for another presidential election. Yes, it
usually begins two years after the last election when the Two Party/One
Party con job returns to overwhelm the suckers.
The drama intensifies
as to who will be the next water carrier for the uber rich empire. Dumb
downed Amerikans get so intense and so angry, each at the other side of
this phony spectrum. The candidates are running around to raise money,
for without the cash no one can ever have the sufficient commercial time
of twenty and thirty second sound bites to win ‘Hearts and minds’. The
print and electronic media whores love this all, as it fattens their
piggybanks, with all those commercials and mailings.
Meanwhile, our ship is sinking and you better start taking Chinese language lessons!
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Philip A Farruggio
is the contributing editor for The Greanville Post. He is also
frequently posted on Global Research, Nation of Change, World News Trust
and Off Guardian sites. He is the son and grandson of Brooklyn NYC
longshoremen and a graduate of Brooklyn College, class of 1974. Since
the 2000 election debacle Philip has written over 300 columns on the
Military Industrial Empire and other facets of life in an upside down
America. He is also host of the ‘It’s the Empire… Stupid’ radio show, co
produced by Chuck Gregory. Philip can be reached at paf1222@bellsouth.net.
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