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Originally Posted by Yukon Cornelius
Thats the idea, Im not anti-materialistic I have things I dont need. I attack those who state that they are not a victim of TV propo/brainwashing. You are constantly bombarded with junk you dont need, yet everyone is in debt because they had to have it. Did they need it? probably not.
There have been moments that we have all been
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You specifically stated you "try really hard to blow off popular items" and then went on to attack cellphones. That is an anti-materialistic thought. I'll restate my point in simpler terms so you get it. By refusing to buy, or "blowing off" popular items aren't you placing more, or just as much value, in these items as the people who buy into them?
I've yet to see an intelligent argument about how television brainwashes everyone and is propaganda. Perhaps you need to look up the definitions of those terms before using anything so extreme. For television to be propaganda it would have to have a cause or something, anything really, to be spreading misinformation about. As a whole it doesn't do that. For it brainwash us...I see no way you can argue it actually does.