by thirty years and we are expected to get with the program and thirty to fifty thousand dollars each year and spend on things we do not  propaganda we do not need to be suckered and being slaves for other people's agendas we do not need to buy things on credit and become economic slaves to banks ratings these ads want us to believe having a good credit rating is the only way to be independent and free and move out of our parents house the best way to  present that for the rest of our lives by big things and credit means you spend thousands of dollars more easily meet even small daily transactions radio while every thousands of dollars entire life credit ratings as only one example of corporations wanting to turn us into not seem willing economic slaves for them to hughes for entire even when everything in there as our lives mcdonald's wants us to eat their burgers and never stop eating their burgers car and truck companies one of the tricks paths are free while driving down the roads of america and they're expensive the drug companies want us to dope up for every little problem we have or am action we have none of the propaganda is designed to actually make their lives better the loud noise shoved us tells us to be good that of slate us to make money for rich people and buy all the crap that rich people want to sell to us and spend our entire lives doing that and this economic system we're only worthwhile when someone is making money off of make sure we see only what they want us to see to see only the propaganda they want us to see google searches now have more bias my mind controlling i gender is that anything coming out of the these days one of the only places to get unfiltered accurate information is your brick and mortar public library or online public libraries public libraries with political books magazines and newspapers after thousands of pages i felt written for me to everyone you browse according to your interests without being stared to google gets to scream and filter every piece of information you are looking to learn the best advice i can guess any person my age is to put down your cell phone go to your local public library and spend your time reading physical books and physical space then decide for yourself who is telling you that they could slice and why they are telling those i do wonder about the value of anything we see on television on this channel or any other channel the people who are big strong political and social ideas and social opinions all want to rouse us up rouse this into action get us out the door get us protesting in the streets get us voting in this or that election as if anyone is going to get off the couch and go out into the streets or vote in any city state or national election just because they saw something on t i think very few people run their lives or base their actions on what they see on television i think it is unrealistic for the talkers the big talkers with big opinions to believe they're actually doing anything worthwhile by talking at me and talking at you and making a big noise they are in fact just adding to the noise of an already noisy world full of noise many commentators on commercial television and public television all assume they are very important they assume they are much more important than they actually are their high paid broadcasters and do not realize are very much like the carnival it comes to town and sells candy and hot dogs and gives you rides and then leaves and no one in town is better off than they were before the carnival arrived there's a lot of dirt to clean up in this case the dirt is ideas propaganda for these reasons i offer a few ideas on my programs and people can take or leave those ideas as they wish and i'm not pushing any social or political or economic agenda except to say simply i believe people should not allow themselves to be slaves to the economic system into which we all are born economics politics were not created by god and they have no moral high ground none of us need to be slaves willing or force lives to the will of our governments or the will of corporations and and the will of the small minded con imaginative minds of billionaires the ones who run the corporations and now the ones who have the most say in our government we do not all need to eat mcdonald's burgers or go to disneyland or go to disney movies there are many other options many more interesting options there are many other options many more interesting options none of us need to fall for the nonstop propaganda of advertisers and the nonstop propaganda of our political parties our lives never need to be defined by the agendas of people who think they're smarter than us who think they know what is good for us and keep talking at us and keep telling us to get with the program this applies both to left wing and right wing propaganda they all have their agendas they all assume they smarter than the rest of us and they figured it out and the rest of us should do what we are told in other words become thought slaves to their versions of reality this is a bad idea as bad an idea is becoming economic slaves to the narrow ideas and small agendas and large agendas and self destructive agendas of corporate c i noticed when i started making my programs for seattle community media and i started putting my and words in the mouths of pretty naked girls and have those girls read my ideas on t v i was surprised to see how much more effective the words are when they come out of a pretty girl's face rather than this old face this disconnect between the idea and who is presenting the idea is a major problem with visual communication one might think it was a n a quick thrill with no lasting consequence a twenty year old will probably pay a lot more attention to what is being said by an attractive twenty year old than they would to a homely sixty year the process of communicating important ideas is hindered by a natural bias toward attractive looking people and people who have so casual resemblance to ourselves in age or in beauty or in the way they dress or the color of their skin or in their sexual behavior when we listen to people who look like us we feel we can trust them there's same problem with older people listening to younger people older people because they've been around longer think they know what's better for you than you do older people because they've been around longer also have a bias and prefer to listen to older people this afternoon i watched a documentary on the life and career of playwright arthur miller produced by his daughter rebecca and i'm left with such great sadness sadness for the suffering he witnessed during his lifetime the suffering he wrote about and his own personal suffering his own suffering it was perhaps larger than most people experience because he had those wild artistic moments when he knew he had created a remarkable place plays equal to anything in the history of literature and he had that wild public acclaim with all that he had the normal fantasies of any great artist of any famous artist feeling like a god god like omniscience and creative power he knew it was a literary genius but that genius and none of his works of art could save the life of marilyn monroe not his genius and not his honest love for any effort on his part could save her from self destruction the internal and external forces in her life were just too powerful while she was still alive when a reporter asked arthur miller what it was like being married to marilyn monroe and he said honestly most of the time is spent taking care of her imply that in many basic ways she was not able to look after herself not able to look after her own physical needs or her mental health never have questioned the ultimate value of art as a result of his own art not being able to do much but i do if even the finest cannot save one person from self destruction well what good is it as far as i can tell no poem has ever stopped to believe no play has ever changed the world view of a brutal businessm or reformed a corrupt politician no painting no piece of music has ever made the lives of poor people less difficult or built a home for a homeless person with the recent exception i notice one recent art auction donated all the money to a homeless shelter so that's one dollar example of where art can make it tangible difference i know a lot of art exists simply to save the sanity of the artists giving an artist a way to exist in a brutal and hostile world i know art sues the heart and elevates the hope of people that is people with good jobs but millions of people have no jobs does art ever do much about that we have even more economic slaves and two thousand and eighteen than when arthur miller wrote death of a salesman in  nine there is just as much mingling of fantasy and reality in our lives most of us are still pretty much slaves to economic and political forces far beyond our control not even after all the works of american artists between one thousand nine hundred and forty nine and now artistic genius has generally fallen out of fashion in two thousand and eighteen it's computer and technology geniuses that are held up as the heroes the artistic hope of serious playwrights screenwriters movie directors novelists and poets is usually to make the world a better place make it a better place by pointing out what is good and what is not good in the way we do things but the question remains does pointing out a problem with the work of art make any difference at all in solving that problem the struggle to earn a living is still the most challenging fact of most people's lives and that one struggle generates many of our national psychosis and personal failures along with that our reality is dominated by the ideas of the wealthy one percenters and their corporations it's those handful of people and the corporations that they create that define our reality those people define a reality more than any artist or writer for for poet any personal beliefs we may have exists only as secondary considerations after our allegiance to our jobs and the reality of our jobs more and more if we lack allegiance to our employers were simply replaced we're no longer employable we can be discarded corporations know that everyone is easily replaceable else we're example we began to design ourselves as servants to the cause of making money and to define our lives by our ability or lack of ability to generate money at any given moment we design our lives to generate enough cash to buy our way out of economic slavery we call the post slavery years retirement but that's only if we have enough money to retire there was perhaps a truly naive fantasy of those th century artists to believe their work if it was only good enough could generate social change and stimulate the consciences of wealthy and powerful people so those people would behave more humanely toward the rest of us in the case of arthur miller the art was certainly good enough but as artists in the st century we've learned changing the minds of the wealthy and powerful is not something any art can do that is simply beyond the reach of art the consciences of wealthy and powerful people march to the beat of their own drums wealthy and powerful parents attempt to pass those march tunes down to their children but sometimes the children of wealthy and powerful people decide they want other kinds of music so sometimes the new marches lead to better living conditions for the rest of us once in a while but most corporate marches still lead to the growth of fascist control and economic slavery in most major corporations the main intention continues to be raiding the wallets of his many citizens as possible in the shortest amount of time that is the goal keeping the prices as high as possible in the corporate view the sole purpose for most people's lives to generate billions of dollars billions of dollars for the shareholders billions of dollars for the people in charge this is as true in the united states as it is in china whatever industry we look at the primary intention is the same universities medical centers law offices banks real estate car sales chain grocery stores the suppliers of chain grocery stores gasoline electricity natural gas and water internet high tech phone cable services everything we buy the the intention is not to provide the best product or service at a fair price the intention is to squeeze people as much as possible there is a big difference between corporate behavior and the behavior of many independent businessmen the independent businessman might personally know their customers and honestly care about their customers but it's corporate behavior that has become the dominant behavior in our economic system and our political system