Tellie Propaganda

'The Magic Box'

For the past decades, television has left uncountable marks on the world's history, and many more to come.
They made heroes, preaching to the world on their idols, the war heroes, the trustworthy politicians-- at least, on TV that's who they are. It has been used as a tool to gain the trust of the people in one, as well as to demolish it. They tell stories, they report their own 'news'.
They get to tell who becomes the protagonist,
they get to tell who becomes the antagonist,
they sure as well get to tell who gets to become the victim, that 'earns' all of the world's sympathies.
We, on the other hand, are being fooled everyday--every moment we believe in their stories.
They make heroes take the image of villains, villains the image of victims, and themselves the image of news reporters and movie makers.

Decades ago, you would see in movies, the SOVIETS are the public enemy. It was parallel to whatever is written in school textbooks. At that time, people didn't have to believe in it, because they knew of it. The equation (soviets = bad). And so television has gained the trust of it's audience. The trust poll rises.

Somewhere before 9/11, they flipped the book. The soviets become a minor, and a new party emerges as the warlock. The middle eastern. The same thing, in movies, on the news, images of the middle eastern, or to be exact, Arabs are on every mainstream news. And let's just say, those images are not good for the Arabs. When a new character  pops up, a new label follows. If soviets = bad, the Arabs got it worse; terrorist. In movies, they become the enemy. My mom likes to watch this TV series, NCIS, and guess what? If the evil doer is a foreigner, it had to, it HAD to be from middle east. If you say it's just entertainment, well..

Close your eyes and tell me the first image that comes to mind when you hear the word 'terrorist', the figure of the TERRORIST.
If what you pictured is somewhere 80% to what I predicted, then you've proven my point.
If not, you've other sources that you receive, and take in from. More space for you to think. I thank you for that. For THINKING.

People  have been talking about how much they hate being told what to do, apparently, they don't being told what to think. Sometimes seeing is not believing. Seeing becomes, viewing. Mere materials for you to  make up better judgement of the issue at hand.

The internet, on the other hand, is the direct opposite. TV is more of a ONE-to-MANY stream. Where one figure tells everyone what to view. The internet, more of a MANY-to-MANY. Every party has the right to  put, and to view what they wish. But be wise. Please..

"Evil has no face. One could not draw out evil among the norm, but TV made it possible. They give evil a face, when it had none. The moment we believe in it blindly, we give up thinking."

 The world collapse, and a veil to cover it. Give the people a puppet show and they will be entertained--their attentions diverged from the real causes. Laughing, giggling, when tears roll, blood spills behind the one veil. Had we not peek through it, we will forever live in deceit. "Give a man pleasures, he will indulge such that he could not be bothered to look over to the weeping neighbour"

Hafidz Iddin