>> ^Ryjkyj:

People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.*


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People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.

If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

As cool as Carl Sagan was, and as cool it would be if he were still around - I don't think the problem is that he was so unique. He was 1-in-a-million - which means there are 300 of him in the U.S. today.

I think the problem is that the broader culture has shifted - from a more innocent time and a fascination with space to American Idol and lolcats.

There's plenty around like him - they're just finding it harder to find the recognition they rightfully deserve.

It irritates me to no end when people insist that every and all conspiracy theories = mental masturbation.

Like you and your friends never conspired to gain something. Like conspiracy is a flying unicorn.

The fact is that shows like these have latent [built in] dysfuctions. One of those dysfuctions is mass distraction.

The power elite [as coined by c. wright mills] don't have to know they are conspiring to conspire.

So why do you need direct evidence to some massive elaborate conspiracy you suggest Yogi and I are proposing..

when the latent dysfuctions of seperate interests provide the same effect?

^AnimalsForCrackers:
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think Heinlein's Razor also might be useful here.

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>> ^TheFreak:
>> ^Yogi:
Probably the greatest way to control people is to focus their attention elsewhere, such as huge sports spectacles and events like American Idol. In order to prevent a free society from being to democratic you have to make sure to neutralize the public, it's distraction...down to a science.

Yeah, American Idol is obviously a conspiracy. It's not a goofy show designed to appeal to the widest audience possible in order to make piles of money...it's a tool of the goverment to distract us while they...I don't know...do something...obviously something insidious...
Or maybe it IS just a TV show. I guess that makes more sense.

Hence why the brainwashing is so effective. Because people like you and her think it's just a tv show.
No harm could come to our society by becoming emotionally involved in manufactured "reality" show like this woman, right?
Meanwhile, on the rest of the planet.. Tim Geithner's shovelin' into money into the bank accounts of his friends at GoldmanSachs. BP & Haliburton are covering up all their crimes. and Blackwater's still murdering civilians and raping girls in cargo containers.
Tho you're right. It's probably just a tv show.


Oh, please. "People like you"? What a complete misrepresentation of what he said. You're free to provide evidence that this in is fact NOT just a TV show and that the only reason it exists in the first place is because it's what the viewers want to watch, however stupid it and they may be for doing so.

How people react and hinge their lives on it, and how the powers that be benefit/profit from these distractions is a completely different story. Again, unless you have evidence that these mind numbing excuses for entertainment are just a big conspiracy, in the way people on planet Earth normally define it. You might be engaging in intentional hyperbole (if so, then I apologize) but the whole situation is far more complex than the simple-minded conspiratorial ejaculate that some have left here. I see where you guys are going with this line of thought, but it's far too simplified to be taken seriously.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I think Heinlein's Razor also might be useful here.

If American Idol didn't exist, this obese woman in her trailer would definitely be watching the latest news about Geitner, BP and Blackwater. Most assuredly. It's too bad she's brainwashed or she'd do something about the travesties affecting the world.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Hence why the brainwashing is so effective. Because people like you and her think it's just a tv show.
No harm could come to our society by becoming emotionally involved in manufactured "reality" show like this woman, right?
Meanwhile, on the rest of the planet.. Tim Geithner's shovelin' into money into the bank accounts of his friends at GoldmanSachs. BP & Haliburton are covering up all their crimes. and Blackwater's still murdering civilians and raping girls in cargo containers.
Tho you're right. It's probably just a tv show.

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>> ^TheFreak:

>> ^Yogi:
Probably the greatest way to control people is to focus their attention elsewhere, such as huge sports spectacles and events like American Idol. In order to prevent a free society from being to democratic you have to make sure to neutralize the public, it's distraction...down to a science.

Yeah, American Idol is obviously a conspiracy. It's not a goofy show designed to appeal to the widest audience possible in order to make piles of money...it's a tool of the goverment to distract us while they...I don't know...do something...obviously something insidious...
Or maybe it IS just a TV show. I guess that makes more sense.


Hence why the brainwashing is so effective. Because people like you and her think it's just a tv show.

No harm could come to our society by becoming emotionally involved in manufactured "reality" show like this woman, right?

Meanwhile, on the rest of the planet.. Tim Geithner's shovelin' into money into the bank accounts of his friends at GoldmanSachs. BP & Haliburton are covering up all their crimes. and Blackwater's still murdering civilians and raping girls in cargo containers.

Tho you're right. It's probably just a tv show.

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>> ^csnel3:

HaHa, The old boy says" he's gonna put that on Utube".

>> ^Yogi:
Probably the greatest way to control people is to focus their attention elsewhere, such as huge sports spectacles and events like American Idol. In order to prevent a free society from being to democratic you have to make sure to neutralize the public, it's distraction...down to a science.


Yeah, American Idol is obviously a conspiracy. It's not a goofy show designed to appeal to the widest audience possible in order to make piles of money...it's a tool of the goverment to distract us while they...I don't know...do something...obviously something insidious...

Or maybe it IS just a TV show. I guess that makes more sense.

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>> ^raverman:

I think maybe she should start watching "the biggest loser" instead.


Yeah she'll watch it...and it'll go right over her head that she could do something similar.

>> ^Yogi:

Probably the greatest way to control people is to focus their attention elsewhere, such as huge sports spectacles and events like American Idol. In order to prevent a free society from being to democratic you have to make sure to neutralize the public, it's distraction...down to a science.


On the other hand, this is probably the most exercise she's gotten in years, so it's not all bad.

Probably the greatest way to control people is to focus their attention elsewhere, such as huge sports spectacles and events like American Idol. In order to prevent a free society from being to democratic you have to make sure to neutralize the public, it's distraction...down to a science.

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