{"id":6241,"date":"2012-05-30T06:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2012-05-30T07:49:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:49:16","slug":"television-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=6241","title":{"rendered":"Television Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a missionary from the Calvary Church a week or so ago and I threw out one of my stock lines:\u00a0 “Karl Marx said that “religion is the opiate of the masses” but time has proved him wrong.\u00a0 Television is the opiate of the masses.”\u00a0 The missionary said “No your wrong.\u00a0 It’s worse than that.\u00a0 Television is a brainwashing machine.”<\/p>\n

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He went on to explain that TV raises viewers expectations and shapes reality for them.\u00a0 It tells them how to be happy and what they should want.\u00a0 Not just the commercials but the shows themselves create an alternate reality that is more exciting and more desirable than the world we really exist in.<\/p>\n

I agreed.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn’t have a solution but I agreed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a missionary from the Calvary Church a week or so ago and I threw out one of my stock lines:\u00a0 “Karl Marx said that “religion is the opiate of the masses” but time has proved him wrong.\u00a0 Television is the opiate of the masses.”\u00a0 The missionary said “No your wrong.\u00a0 It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[310,199],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says","tag-business-success","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1CF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6260,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions\/6260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}